Station eleven book characters
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Emily St. John Mandel
Canadian writer (born 1979)
Not to be confused with Emily St. James.
Emily St. John Mandel (;[2][3]née Fairbanks;[4] born 1979) is a Canadian novelist and essayist.[5][6] She has written six novels, including Station Eleven (2014), The Glass Hotel (2020), and Sea of Tranquility (2022). Station Eleven, which has been translated into 33 languages,[7] has been adapted into a limited series on HBO Max.[8]The Glass Hotel was translated into twenty languages and was selected by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2020.[9][10]Sea of Tranquility was published in April 2022 and debuted at number three on The New York Times Best Seller list.[11]
Early life
Mandel was born in spring 1979[6] in Merville, British Columbia, Canada.[1][6] Her Canadian mother is a social worker and her American father is a plumber.[12][13][14] St. John, her grandmother's surname, is her m
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An Alternative History of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.
Can you spot how this story diverges from reality?
James Watson started college at the age of 15 and had completed his PhD research at the age of 23. While an undergraduate he shifted his interest from ornithology to molecular biology. Some parts of Biology were making a transition from the era of classical biology to the new age of molecular biology. Watson faced the challenge of trying to get a chance to join a research laboratory that would bring him closer to his goal of learning the physical basis of heredity.
A number of scientific specialties were converging on this goal: genetics, biochemistry, biophysics. Watson’s PhD research involved a genetic approach, making use of physical techniques to probe the properties of viruses. The viruses he worked with were the smallest known genetic agents; agents that some scientists thought of as comprising “naked genes”. For his post-doctoral research, Watson moved on to join a laboratory in Europe that studied the chemical components of DNA and the chemistry of
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Mendel's Dwarf
| Author | Mawer, Simon |
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| Year | 1997 |
| First published | 1997 |
| Publisher | London: Doubleday |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Edition | First UK hardback |
| ISBN | 9780385408974 |
| Keywords | genetics |
Abstract
Told in the cynical but utterly compelling voice of a man who is waging a private war against genetic chance—obsessed with identifying the mutant gene responsible for his own disability—Mendel's Dwarf is a gripping story of scientific discovery and of the messy blend of empathy, sympathy, respect, and physiology that comprise love. The stories of a late 20th century molecular biologist riding the crest of a mature science and of the mid-nineteenth century father of that science are cleverly interwoven to examine the limits of human choice, the nature of nature—of normalcy and aberrance—and the social and political uses and abuses of scientific knowledge. Along the way, we get a refresher course in classical genetics and historical glimpses of Gregor Mendel's life and the early twentieth century eugenics movement. (FMS Gaines)Links
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