cover image Cantor's Dilemma

Cantor's Dilemma

Carl Djerassi. Penguin Books, $16 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-14-014359-1

A distinguished cell biologist and his best student win the Nobel Prize for their cancer research but are suspected of falsifying experimental data. ``Although Djerassi does not convince the reader that a prestigious prize can be awarded on such shaky ground, his scientific morality play works well,'' PW said of a novel that is ``an absorbing view of big science at its seediest.'' (Mar.)