By Andrea Ford SCOPE, Published by Standford Medicine: The review highlights the protagonist's passion, which reflects Joram Piatigorsky's passion, for basic science research as a means to expanding our knowledge and sparking scientific breakthroughs.
By Joel Shurkin, Science Writer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: What possesses a respected, retired scientist to take on the agonizing task of writing a novel and fighting to get it published? Author Joram Piatigorsky, an emeritus scientist from the National Institute of Health’s National Eye Institute, says quite simply that he had something important to say.
Lucky me! My novel, "Jellyfish Have Eyes," was well reviewed by Joel Shurkin (thank you!) in the National Academy of Sciences website and its journal, Proceedings of the National Academy - a rare case of a first novel not lost in the vast wasteland out there. But what I think is important is that he [...]