He also won a Christopher Award for this book. He was invited to write regular essays in the New England Journal of Medicine, and won a National Book Award for the 1974 collection of those essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. His formative years as an independent medical researcher were at Tulane University School of Medicine. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913–December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. "No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas."- The New York Times Book Review "If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas."- TIME And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned-and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as "The Attic of the Brain," "Falsity and Failure," "Altruism," and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world.
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