Thomas, Lewis 1913-

PHYSICIAN-AUTHOR

Notes of a Biology Watcher.

Dr. Lewis Thomas became known to the lay community in 1971 when he began writing, in language accessible to the nonscientific world, a series of essays for the New England Journal of Medicine that he called "Notes of a Biology Watcher." These essays were spotted by Viking Press, and in 1974 twenty-nine of his essays appeared in The Lives of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher. His work received national attention and critical acceptance, and he was awarded a National Book Award in the arts and letters category in 1975. In 1983 he followed his earlier success with The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher.

Renaissance Man.

In 1973 Dr. Thomas began heading one of the world's major institutions in the field of cancer research as president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In...

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