Briggs, Joanne | THE SCIENTIST WHO WASN'T THERE

En utforskning av vetenskap och existens, med fokus på frågor kring identitet och verklighet.

• Fascinerande berättelse om vetenskap och teknik.

• Personliga insikter från en unik perspektiv.

• Utgiven som pocket.

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-06-04

Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Tiptree Book Service
ISBN: 9781804189764

Omfång: 288 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2026-06-04

Förlagets information

'A page-turner with a mystery to solve, and a meditation on what it means for a child to know their parents' - Cathy Rentzenbrink
'An exceptional, entirely unpredictable, real-life thriller' - Michael Mansfield
'An astonishingly original memoir about truth, identity and the ethics of science' The Telegraph
'Gripping' The Times

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'A page-turner with a mystery to solve, and a meditation on what it means for a child to know their parents' - Cathy Rentzenbrink
'An exceptional, entirely unpredictable, real-life thriller' - Michael Mansfield
'An astonishingly original memoir about truth, identity and the ethics of science' The Telegraph
'Gripping' The Times

WINNER OF THE BRIDPORT PRIZE FOR MEMOIR

Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things:
A Space expert at NASA
An adviser to the World Health Organisation
A successful Big Pharma executive

But Michael Briggs had a secret.

A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country

Briggs left behind a long list of publications, patents, and inventions. But he also left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence and who are still fighting for justice to this day.

And he left someone else: his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate for herself. In hypnotic prose, she uncovers the secret that shaped her father's entire life and made his story more fantastic than any science fiction. As she discovered, Briggs's greatest invention was himself.

The Scientist Who Wasn't There av Joanne Briggs hittar du under Personliga berättelser inom Vetenskapliga biografier i huvudkategorin Biografier | Memoarer.

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