Hematology

by William S. Beck

4th Revised edition. Revised. Hardcover MIT Press

496 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1977

About the author

Born in 1923, Dr. Beck entered the University of Pennsylvania, later transferred to the University of Michigan where he took his B.S. in 1943 and is M.D. three years later. In 1950, he accepted an appointment as an instructor at the medical school of the University of California at Los Angeles. During this time, he was associated with the Atomic Energy Project as Chief of the Hematology and Medical Sections. In 1955, he took a leave of absence to study enzyme chemistry at New York University where he was concurrently engaged in teaching and research. [He joined the Harvard Medical School in 1957 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Harvard College as a Tutor in the Biomedical Sciences. During this time, Dr Beck served as the Chief of the Hematology Unit and the Hematology Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.]

- From the back-cover of Modern Science and the Nature of Life.