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By Georgina Ferry. 352 pp., illustrated. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008. $39. ISBN 978-0-87969-785-3.

Biographies that are most apt to appeal to physicians offer a coherent and accurate account of the subject's contributions to medicine, along with insights into his or her character and personality. Georgina Ferry amply fulfills these criteria in her account of the life of Max Perutz, the Nobel laureate who worked out the structure of hemoglobin and the chemical basis of its physiological properties. Her lively narrative draws us into the world of high-powered science, with its triumphs, frustrations, and foibles. Although Ferry met Perutz only once, near the end of his life, she treats him with comfortable informality in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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