Kurt Stenn
Författare till Hair: A Human History
Om författaren
Kurt Stenn has over thirty years of expertise studying hair at institutions including the Yale University School of Medicine and Johnson Johnson. He has lectured extensively on the biology of the hair follicle, written over 200 peer review scientific publications, and served on the adjunct visa mer faculties of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Drexel University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Princeton, NJ. visa färre
Verk av Kurt Stenn
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- male
- Bostadsorter
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Chicago (BS, Biochemistry and Botany)
University of Rochester School of Medicine (MD)
Yale University (MA, honorary)
Fairleigh Dickinson University (MBA) - Yrken
- dermatologist
professor - Organisationer
- Yale University School of Medicine
- Kort biografi
- [from Simon & Schuster website]
Kurt Stenn has over 30 years of expertise studying hair. He had a distinguished twenty-year academic career as a Professor of Pathology and Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine and was for ten years Director of Skin Biology at Johnson & Johnson. Most recently, he helped found and served as Chief Scientific Officer for a biotech startup focusing on hair follicle regeneration. He has lectured extensively on the biology of the hair follicle, written over 200 peer review scientific publications and served on the Adjunct Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Drexel University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Princeton, NJ.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 50
- Popularitet
- #316,248
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 3
For all that, it's quite a short book, so it sometimes feels like you're kind of just getting lots and lots of random hair facts thrown at you quickly without a lot of in-depth exploration, and sometimes without a whole lot of rhyme or reason. Which could be annoying, but, I have to say, I was far too interested by all the huh-I-never-knew-that hair facts to care much. If you are also the sort of person capable of being pleasantly distracted by learning, for instance, that the best hairs for paintbrushes come from the underside of the tail of a male Siberian sable during winter, or that there's a legend about felt being invented by a guy walking around with wool in his shoes, then this is definitely the book for you.
I still don't know why that one weird, annoying hair keeps growing out of the side of my neck, though.… (mer)