Ambition and Delight

About the Book

Henry Bourne’s scientific career spanned four decades of rapidly expanding progress in experimental biology, accelerated by the DNA revolution of the 1980s. Ambition and Delight shows how the unique personalities, joys, and sorrows of individual scientists shape their science. Their discoveries are driven by warm cooperation and painful competition, combined with the viscerally satisfying delight of solving nature’s puzzles.

About the Author

The author was a newspaper reporter, a physician, and eventually a scientist, focusing on hormone action and the molecular basis of disease. His lab trained dozens of young scientists, who now direct labs in academia or industry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and has authored 250 scientific articles, book chapters, and reviews. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.