The Book Prize Index

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just

Kenneth R. Manning

Born in Charleston, S.C., Ernest Everett Just studied "the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of the organism."--Jacket.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyAward Category: National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyScientific Biography

Award History

1 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pfizer Award: History of Science1984WinnerSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in Biography or AutobiographyMajor1984FinalistSecondary source
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor1983FinalistSecondary source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    • Ernest Everett Just86%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Charleston, S.C.55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    58 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.