Reviews of Joram Piatigorsky’s books, including Gene Sharing and Evolution (non-fiction), Jellyfish Have Eyes (fiction) and The Speed of Dark (memoir).
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.
Jellyfish Have Eyes by Joram Piatigorsky. Fiction. Piatigorsky’s debut novel is a suspenseful thriller mixing the biological sciences – research into the surprisingly fascinating world of jellyfish eyes – and politics.
By Kathryn DeMott, NIH Record: NEI scientist emeritus Dr. Joram Piatigorsky remembers the moment he became captivated by jellyfish eyes. He was reading a book about invertebrate vision and there it was—an image of a very familiar-looking eye looking back at him from the most ancient multi-organ animal. The eyes of jellyfish became a focus of his more than four-decade long career at NIH.
By Ellyn Wexler, Special To The Gazette: Joram Piatigorsky is somewhat of an anomaly. The Bethesda resident identifies himself as half scientist, half artist.