Boneheads and Brainiacs - Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Moira Dolan

Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong. The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit world and ESP. A ...