Editing The Andromeda Strain (section)

==Main characters==
* Dr. Jeremy Stone: Professor and chair of the [[bacteriology]] department at [[Stanford University]]; Stone is fictitiously the winner of the 1961 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], whereas the actual winner was [[Georg von Békésy]]<ref>Nobel Laureate [[Joshua Lederberg]] was convinced that "Jeremy Stone" was modeled strongly after himself and wrote to Knopf Publishers to protest on June 25, 1969. See https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/BBGAAI.pdf.</ref><ref>In 1984, "the real Dr. [[Jeremy Stone]]" expressed complete surprise that Crichton had named the lead character for him.{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}}</ref>
* Dr. Charles Burton<!-- not Dutton as in the film. -->: Professor of [[Pathology]] at the [[Baylor College of Medicine]]
* Dr. Peter Leavitt<!-- Please do not change this to "Ruth"; this article is about the book, and in the book, the character is a MAN named PETER, even though in the movie it's a WOMAN named RUTH. -->: Clinical [[microbiologist]]; suffers from [[epilepsy]]
* Dr. Mark Hall: [[Surgeon]]
* Prof. Christian Kirke: one of the intended five, an [[anthropologist]] from [[Yale University|Yale]], was hospitalized with appendicitis