but i would like to start with biochemist otto warburg as you. his family dynamics. his early life rated let's start there and tell us about his family. sam: so his father was very prominent physicist. he was jewish, and part of the famous warburg family that is best known as a financial famy of the warburg bank. and trento is a product of these other warburg senate the time it was unusual for somebody of jewish descent to rise to a high academic position and his father really rises all of the way to the top of the civics world and otto warburg present the sum of the greatest scientists in history. a regular einstein it was very close to camille warburg and fisher and was great chemistry to so many of these world-famous personalities and someone, they had already one the nobel prizes enterprises added otto warburg pretends to be a world changing scientist in his life. he grows up with it. his natural surroundings and what he feels is expected of him. and the question in his mind is really not busy going to make world changes discoveries but in what field it's going to

otto warburg, the nazis and the search for the cancer connection." >> who was otto warburg?illiant german scientist born in the late 19th century. her father was a famous jewish physicist, emil warburg. all these famous scientists are in warburg's house growing up. he idolizes these men and decides to be a great scientist, too. >> reporter: that's what warburg did. in 1931 he was awarded the nobel prize for research on cellular res spir ration, that cells eat in a different way from other cells, became known as the warburg effect. >> technically what the warburg effect is, it was understood that a human cell could turn to fermentation, but it's thought that is something a cell does in desperation, when it doesn't have oxygen. if you exercise really intensely and start breathing and your lunges are heaving, you don't have enough oxygen to run res spir ration so your cells turn to fermentation. the warburg effect, he discovered that cancer cells were doing this even though there was oxygen available. >> reporter: warburg continued his research as the nazis strengthened their g

then sam abbott looks at the life of biochemist otto warburg, billy gay and jewish, who was supported by the nazi party to continue his research on cancer in world war ii. later, climate change science isn't settled. that all starts now on booktv. find more information on booktv.org. here is elizabeth mcgowan on her coast to coast bike trip, surviving melanoma. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club where news happens. i'm a freelance reporter and past president of the national press club. thank you for joining us today for our virtuous headliners book and author talk with elizabeth mcgowan. national press club member and author of "outpedaling the big c: my healing cycle across america".

then sam abbott looks at the life of biochemist otto warburg, billy gay and jewish, who was supported by the nazi party to continue his research on cancer in world war ii. later, climate change science isn't settled. that all starts now on booktv. find more information on booktv.org. here is elizabeth mcgowan on her coast to coast bike trip, surviving melanoma. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club where news happens. i'm a freelance reporter and past president of the national press club. thank you for joining us today for our virtuous headliners book and author talk with elizabeth mcgowan. national press club member and author of "outpedaling the big c: my healing cycle across america". we will start in a moment but a reminder that we are happy to accept your questions and will ask as many as time allows. please email headliners@press.org. as the covid 19 pandemic pushed us out of malls and movie theaters and restaurants many of us found a respite in nature. trail hikes, in local green spaces, national parks, one study published late last year in the journal of for