The immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and their daring quest to live forever
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His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best-selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step—the Lindy Hop—that he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished on Lindbergh, one story has remained untold until now: his macabre scientific collaboration with Dr. Alexis Carrel. This oddest of couples—one a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning surgeon turned social engineer, the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the skies—joined forces in 1930 driven by a shared and secret dream: to conquer death and attain immortality. Part Frankenstein, part The Professor and the Madman, and all true, The Immortalists is the remarkable story of how two men of prodigious achievement and equally large character flaws challenged nature's oldest rule, with consequences—personal, professional, and political—that neither man anticipated.
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Biography & Autobiography
Carrel, Alexis
Carrel, Alexis, -- 1873-1944
Electronic books
History
Immortality
Life spans (Biology)
Life spans (Biology) -- Research
Lindbergh, Charles A
Lindbergh, Charles A. -- (Charles Augustus), -- 1902-1974
Medical technology
Medical technology -- History -- 20th century
Medical technology -- Research -- United States
Nonfiction
Preservation of organs, tissues, etc
Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Research
Research
Science
United States
Carrel, Alexis
Carrel, Alexis, -- 1873-1944
Electronic books
History
Immortality
Life spans (Biology)
Life spans (Biology) -- Research
Lindbergh, Charles A
Lindbergh, Charles A. -- (Charles Augustus), -- 1902-1974
Medical technology
Medical technology -- History -- 20th century
Medical technology -- Research -- United States
Nonfiction
Preservation of organs, tissues, etc
Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Research
Research
Science
United States
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Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Research
Science
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The immortalists : Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and their daring quest to live forever
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The immortalists : Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and their daring quest to live forever / David M. Friedman
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The immortalists : Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and their daring quest to live forever / David M. Friedman
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