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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline-Fueled Adventures
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by Lefkowitz M.D., Robert J

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  • Title A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline-Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist
  • Author Lefkowitz M.D., Robert J
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Books
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00ZCZC_ns
  • ISBN 9781643136387 / 1643136380
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Scientists - United States, Autobiography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 01/01/2021, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/07/2020, Page 0

About the author

Robert J. Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Chemistry, 2012) who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors. He was trained at Columbia, the NIH and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University and becoming an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition to being a researcher, Dr. Lefkowitz is a cardiologist as well as a cardiac patient.

Randy Hall was a post-doctoral trainee of Dr. Lefkowitz in the 1990's and is now a Professor in the Emory University School of Medicine. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers and received major awards for his research. He is also a prize-winning educator with strong interests in science writing and public outreach about science and medicine.