A Nobel and a Suicide

A Nobel and a Suicide explores the starkly divergent fates of two scientific visionaries – ROBERT EDWARDS and SUBHAS MUKHERJI.

Weaving together intimate archival records, personal correspondence and interviews with surviving contemporaries, this masterfully researched account examines how geography, institutional backing, peer review and socio-cultural politics dictate who is celebrated as a genius and who is driven into obscurity.

A profoundly human chronicle of scientific conviction, deep personal partnerships and the complex mechanisms that govern how discovery is remembered – or forgotten.