Joram Piatigorsky was an undergraduate at Harvard College (1958 – 1962) and received a Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology (1967). After a postdoctoral fellowship followed by research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he established and headed the Section of Cellular Differentiation at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1976) and then founded and headed the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute (1981). He has trained 30 – 40 postdoctoral scientists who populated academic and industrial scientific areas, published 300 scientific articles, chapters and reviews, including a book generalizing his discoveries on gene evolution, Gene Sharing and Evolution, Harvard University Press, 2007. He has received numerous recognitions, including the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research (2008), and lectured world-wide, served on funding study sections, advisory and trustee boards, and editorial boards for scientific journals. He closed his laboratory and became an emeritus scientist at NIH to devote his time to writing (2009).
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The 67 essays in Truth and Fantasy explore diverse themes from different perspectives based on the author's and narrator's experiences. The essays are neither comprehensive nor meant to argue forcefully for any single viewpoint, rather, they are meant to ... SEE MORE