Meet the Carousing, Harmonica-Playing Texan Who Won a Nobel for his Cancer Breakthrough
This essay is part of a series on cultural, scientific and esoteric matters. Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer? Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur This material was first published by WIRED magazine on 10.22.2018 ADAPTED FROM THE book The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, JAMES ALLISON LOOKS like a cross between Jerry Garcia and Ben Franklin, and he’s a bit of both, an iconoclastic scientist and mu...
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