Erich Segal "Awards"

Author: Erich Segal Original title: Prizes First edition: 1996 Medical topics: Nobel Prize, research on Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, liver cancer, infertility Description: The book presents the stories of outstanding scientists working on the most significant problems of their time. Sandy Raven is a biogeneticist and chemist researching the aging process, the possibility of extending human life, and the regeneration of dying tissues in patients suffering from muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease. Isabel da Costa is a child prodigy in physics. She investigates questions that Albert Einstein was unable to explain. Adam Coopersmith is a doctor, a gynecologist fighting, among other things, female infertility. Soon, fate will bring them together in a joint medical project. *The Prizes* faithfully captures the lives of contemporary scientists, the professional challenges they face, as well as the frequent setbacks in their personal lives. The book has an interesting structure. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, it contains 63 chapters—each dedicated to one of the three main characters: Adam, Sandy, or Isabelle. So you can read the novel in order, following the fates of all the characters in parallel, or focus on the story of one of them, then move on to the next, and so on. Whatever you prefer. I highly recommend it.