His early work took readers to the stars, but his later work ventured into noir mystery and the back roads of the American South. By Clay Risen Michael Bishop, an author who was best known for his ...
J. Michael Bishop, a microbiologist who shared a Nobel Prize in 1989 for research that illuminated the genetic roots of cancer, and who later served as chancellor of the University of California at ...
He helped discover cancer-causing genes. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he led a major expansion. By Delthia Ricks J. Michael Bishop, who shared a Nobel Prize for ...