Apprentice to Genius

Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Robert Kanigel (Macmillan, 1986; Johns Hopkins University Press reprint, 1993) is a narrative history of biomedical research in the United States, focusing on the master?apprentice tradition in science. Kanigel traces the lineage of groundbreaking pharmacologists and neuroscientists at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University, beginning with Bernard Brodie and extending through Julius Axelrod, Solomon Snyder, and Candace Pert.