In the Shadow of Nobel Prize

In the Shadow of the Nobel Prize presents researchers that have been instrumental in the modern development of medicine, focusing on the fields of clinical hematology, cancer research and transplantation. Gösta Gahrton tells stories of meetings with researchers that he thinks have been worthy of the Nobel Prize, but who have not received it, without revealing anything that has been discussed in the Nobel committee, of which he was a member for 10 years, thus obeying the 50-year secrecy rule. He also describes encounters with researchers that themselves think they are worthy of the prize and of those that complain about not having received it. His judgment is personal and relates to a development of which he was a participant. His point is that the most important researchers in the world are more important for mankind than those who receive most attention in the media, like soccer players and pop singers. This should in his opinion be changed — the great discoveries and the discoverers should receive more media visibility. This book contrasts with most books about the Nobel Prizes that tell stories about those who have got the prize. The book is at the same time an autobiography, i.e. the narrative is about those scientists that the author has met, known, and valuated personally as part of his own scientific journey. Contents: Visiting Paris Alfred Nobel's Will The Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institutet My Background on My Father's Side My Father My Background on My Mother's Side My Mother My Childhood My Youth Summer Work and Holidays in England My French Period My Early Medical Studies with Nobel Prize-Worthy Teachers Mountain Climbing Exchange Student in Zürich with Guido Fanconi, Manfred Bleuler and Sven Moeschlin My Time as a Physician in Lund Inge Edler and Echocardiography Stig Radner and Heart Catheterization Jan Waldenström and the Discovery of Macroglobulinemia Torbjörn Caspersson and Chromosome Banding United States of America Sidney Farber and the First Treatment of Acute Leukemia William Dameshek and Robert Schwartz William (Bill) Curry Moloney and Emil (Tom) Frei III Louis Sullivan and William Castle To the Karolinska University Hospital and the Creation of the Leukemia Group of Middle Sweden Georges Mathé and Immunotherapy of Cancer To the Huddinge Hospital Bone Marrow Transplants at the Huddinge Hospital Stem Cell Transplants — The Patient in the Center Donall Thomas and the 1990 Nobel Prize Competing to Become a Professor The First Years as Double Department Head The Liquidation of the Clinical Department of Medicine Tutor and Teacher The Swedish Medical Research Council and Nobel Prize Winner Arvid Carlsson The Work of the Nobel Committee Researchers Claiming to be Worthy of the Nobel Prize Journal of Internal Medicine and Acta Medica Scandinavica Moscow and the All-Union Scientific Centre for Haematology Chernobyl and Robert (Bob) Peter Gale The European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Donors — The World Marrow Donor Association Jon van Rood Multiple Myeloma Kuwait, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey Gene Therapy Gene Therapy Supported by the European Commission — Odile Cohen-Haguenauer and Zelig Eshhar Gambro The Wallenberg Foundations Japan and the Fujimoto Pharmaceutical Corporation China Media Help to Die Readership: Students and researchers in Life Science/Biology and Medicine, Hematologists, Oncologists, Immunologists, Microbiologists, Pharmacologists, Infectious Disease researchers, Historians of biology, Historians of medicine, Historians of science. Key Features: The book describes encounters with researchers that the author thinks are Nobel Prize worthy, although they have not received the prize He also describes those who themselves think they are worthy of the prize and complain about not having received it This contrasts with most books about the Nobel Prizes that tell stories about those who have got the prize The book is at the same time an autobiography, i.e. the narrative is about those scientists that the author has met, known, and valuated personally as part of his own scientific journey