Charlotte Jacobs
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Charlotte Jacobs

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90 Seconds to Midnight is Charlotte Jacobs’ third story of a passionate individual whose lifelong endeavors helped safeguard mankind. Setsuko Nakamura (Thurlow) at age 13 was living in Hiroshima when it was annihilated by the first atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of nuclear weapons, resulting in a UN treaty prohibiting them. Salk Jonas Salk: A Life, is the first full account of one of the most beloved and decorated scientific heroes whose polio vaccine all but eradicated a crippling disease. Jacobs reveals the complex man behind the controversial legend. Jonas Salk was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book prize. Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease recounts the life of a controversial physician-scientist whose remarkable discoveries and vehement drive to cure cancer changed the course of cancer therapy. The Wall Street Journal ranked it one of the “Best Five Books” on doctors’ lives. Jacobs is a professor of medicine(emerita) at Stanford University. She lives in Stanford CA with husband Rod Young.
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