Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

A curious life : from rebel orphan to innovative scientist / Thomas H. Haines with Mindy Lewis.

by Haines, Thomas H.

View full image

Post Hill Press, 2019.

Haines, Thomas H.

Biochemists -- United States -- Biography.

9781642931938 (pbk.)

394 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A Curious Life chronicles the remarkable life of preeminent biochemist Thomas Haines. Born in 1933, Haines was barely four when he was sent by court order to The Graham School, an orphanage in Hastings-on-Hudson NY founded in 1806 by Isabella Graham and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. His trajectory is a series of radical reversals: from penniless orphan to innovative scientist and educator; from right-wing McCarthyite to left-wing activist; founder of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of The City University of New York, a medical school designed to bring in low-income and minority students; New York City landlord; husband of a successful artist whom he nursed through a long illness; father of a brilliant and prominent daughter. Now eighty-six, Haines is Professor Emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute and the only alumnus of the Graham School to serve on its board. A diminutive dynamo in a bow tie, Dr. Haines recently participated on a panel at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and jogs every morning at four a.m. in Central Park. Above all a formidable storyteller, Haines provides an intimate look at his relationships and conveys the excitement of a life in science."--back cover.

Lewis, Mindy, 1952-

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal