This Book World review of David M. Friedman's "The Immortalists" incorrectly said that Alexis Carrel was the first American scientist to win a Nobel Prize. That honor goes to Albert Abraham Michelson, who won in 1907. Carrel was French and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
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Lindbergh's fame gained him an introduction in 1930 to Alexis Carrel, the first American scientist to win a Nobel Prize and a pioneer in the laboratory cultivation of tissues and organs. The two became lifelong collaborators, designing ever better systems for keeping organs alive outside the body. They also fed each other's eugenic views, which grew into disturbingly sympathetic takes on Hitler's vision of a superior race.
Friedman's depiction of Lindbergh as a single-minded immortalist is at times two-dimensional, and his implication that the famed pilot ultimately transcended his racist leanings is less than convincing. But the story reveals a fascinating side of a man underappreciated for his scientific talent and philosophical complexity. ¿
-- Rick Weiss
The reviewers are on The Post's science staff.
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