Lewis Thomas

This is an excerpt of a review by Stephen Jay Gould of Thomas's autobiography, The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher. There's a link to get the rest of the review on this page. Can you think of another way to get the full article?

Here is a no-frills biography of Thomas from The Columbia Encyclopedia.

This biographical sketch of Thomas, written by an M.D., also has a photo of Thomas and one of Thomas's poems.

This page contains Thomas's citation for his 1981 National Book Award. Look over the other names on the page. Whose do you recognize? How would you go about learning more about them?

Thomas's career and life were an admirable blending of art and science. Interested in pursuing this blend further? This page shows the result of searching for these terms using the search engine at Google.com, and will give you plenty of places to start your research.

Did you know that Thomas has a prize named after him? Read more about it in this press release from Rockefeller University.

Thomas was the head of a world-famous cancer treatment center. Do you remember which one it was? Click here to refresh your memory, and find out more about this center.

In 1992 Thomas conducted this interview with BookPage, following the publication of his collection of essays The Fragile Species.

Ready for a bit of conflict? Read this reply by a Harvard professor to a New York Review of Books piece by Thomas, and Thomas's counter-reply. Subject: The history of tuberculosis. How can you characterize Thomas's argument here?

Looking for a quotation by Thomas for a research paper? Here's a great one about doctors and healing.