1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vacine
Jane S. Smith
Captures the intensity that characterized the race to ‘conquer’ the dreaded, crippling disease of polio. Smith volunteered to try the experimental Salk vaccine; this is her personal essay on the interplay among medicine, politics, psychology, culture & col…
1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Shortlist
Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge
Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
Christopher Manes
Sonoran Desert Summer
John Alcock
