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Wellcome Book Prize
Wellcome Book Prize (2009–2019 — paused) is an annual British literary award sponsored by Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of Burroughs Wellcome, one of the predec .... In keeping with the vision and goals of Wellcome Trust, the Book Prize "celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature", including fiction and non-fiction. The winner receives £30,000 making it "one of the most remunerative literature awards on offer." The current prize for medicine in literature was inaugurated in 2009, but there was an older award with the same name. In 1998, Wellcome Trust began offering a prize that would enable a practicing life scientist to take time off and write a science book for the general reader. Applicants would submit a book outline and sample chapter, winners would then be obliga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of Burroughs Wellcome, one of the predecessors of GSK plc) to fund research to improve human and animal health. The aim of the Trust is to "support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone." It had a financial endowment of £29.1 billion in 2020, making it the fourth wealthiest charitable foundation in the world. In 2012, the Wellcome Trust was described by the ''Financial Times'' as the United Kingdom's largest provider of non-governmental funding for scientific research, and one of the largest providers in the world. According to their annual report, the Wellcome Trust spent GBP £1.1 billion on charitable activities across their 2019/2020 financial year. According to the OECD, the Wellcome Trust's financing for 2019 development increased by 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsey Fitzharris
Lindsey Fitzharris (born 1982) is an American author, medical historian, and television host. She is the creator of the blog ''The Chirurgeon's Apprentice'', and the writer and host of the Smithsonian Channel TV series ''The Curious Life and Death of...''. She is a resident of the United Kingdom. Career Fitzharris holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine & Technology, received from the University of Oxford in 2009. She was awarded a postdoctoral award from the Wellcome Trust in 2010. In 2017, she published '' The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine'', a biography of surgical pioneer Joseph Lister. The book won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and was named an American Library Association Notable Nonfiction book for 2018. The book was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and Wolfson History Prize in the United Kingdom that same year. To date, ''The Butchering Art'' has been translated int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Breath Becomes Air
''When Breath Becomes Air'' is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016. In his last year of neurosurgical residency at Stanford University, Kalanithi experiences negative changes in his health. Rapid weight loss and severe back and chest pains begin to raise concern for him and his wife, Lucy Kalanithi. He worries that cancer might have caused his symptoms and his decline of health – unlikely for people in their thirties. However, when the X-ray results in a routine medical check-up return normal, he and his primary care physician attribute the symptoms to aging and work overload. Determined to finish the last months of his residency, he ignores whatever symptoms have not subsided. A few weeks later, the symptoms come back, stronger than before. Around this time, Kalanithi and his wife experienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kalanithi
Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer. His book '' When Breath Becomes Air'' is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. It was on ''The New York Times'' Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks. Early life and education Paul Kalanithi was born on April 1, 1977, and lived in Westchester, New York. He was born to a Christian family hailing from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India. Kalanithi had two brothers, Jeevan and Suman; Jeevan is a computer/robotics engineer and Suman is a neurologist. The family moved from Bronxville, New York, to Kingman, Arizona, when Kalanithi was 10. Kalanithi attended Kingman High School, where he graduated as valedictorian. Kalanithi attended Stanford University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English literature and a Bachelor of Arts in human biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss (born 1975) is an English writer and academic. She has published eight novels and two memoirs, as well as a number of non-fiction works and academic texts. A ninth novel, Ripeness is forthcoming May 2025. Her work has been nominated three times for the Wellcome Book Prize. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin's School of English, Drama and Film in the Republic of Ireland with effect from September 2020. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times. Biography Sarah Moss was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and at the age of two moved with her family to Manchester, where she lived until at the age of 18, when she went to study at the University of Oxford. During the ten years she spent in Oxford, she earned a BA, Master of Studies and D.Phil in English Literature, and then held a postdoctoral research fellowship. From 2004 to 2009 she was a lecturer at the University of Kent. Following the publication in 2009 of her first n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inside Story Of How Citizens And Science Tamed AIDS
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David France (writer)
David France (born 1959) is an American investigative reporter, non-fiction author, and filmmaker. He is a former ''Newsweek'' senior editor, and has published in ''New York'' magazine, ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', '' GQ'', and others. France, who is gay, is best known for his investigative journalism on LGBTQ topics. France has been nominated for an Oscar and multiple Emmy Awards. He has also earned a George Foster Peabody Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction. In June 2007, France appeared on ''The Colbert Report'' to discuss the scientific basis that homosexuality is genetic. In 2017, he appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to discuss his film about gay liberation activist Marsha P. Johnson. In 2009, he co-founded Public Square Films with Joy A. Tomchin. Early career Journalism France published his first pieces of reporting in Gay Community News in the early 1980s, and soon was assistant editor at the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee ( Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, '' The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'', that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Guardian First Book Award, among others. The book was listed in the "All-''Time'' 100 Nonfiction Books" (the 100 most influential books of the last century) by ''Time'' magazine in 2011. His 2016 book '' The Gene: An Intimate History'' made it to #1 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, and was among ''The New York Times'' 100 best books of 2016, and a finalist for the Wellcome Trust Prize and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. After completing secondary school education in India, Mukherjee studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. from University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.D. from Harva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Yong
Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a British Americans, British-American science journalist and author. In 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the author of two books: ''I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life'' (2016) and ''An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us'' (2022). Education Edmund Soon-Weng Yong was born on 17 December 1981, in Malaysia. At the age of 13, Yong immigrated to the UK in 1994. He became a British citizen in 2005. Yong was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin), promoted per tradition to a Master of Arts) in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), natural sciences (zoology) from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 2002. He completed postgraduate study at University College London, University College London (UCL), where he was awarded a Master of Philosophy, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Wadman
Meredith is a name of Welsh origin. A family name, it is also sometimes used as a girl's or boy's forename. In Welsh the name is exclusively male and is spelt Maredudd or Meredydd. People * Meredith (given name) * Meredith (surname) Places Australia * Meredith, Victoria United States * Meredith, Colorado * Lake Meredith (Colorado) * Meredith, Michigan * Meredith, New Hampshire, a New England town ** Meredith (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town * Meredith, New York * Meredith Township, Cloud County, Kansas * Meredith Township, Wake County, North Carolina * Lake Meredith, reservoir formed by a dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas Ships * HMS ''Meredith'' (1763), sloop of the British Royal Navy purchased in 1763 and sold in 1784 * USCS ''Meredith'', survey ship in United States Coast Survey service from 1851 to 1872 * USS ''Meredith'', the name of more than one United States Navy ship * SS ''Meredith Victory'', United States Merchant Marine Victory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
