This novel begins in Elk Hills, where the title character grows up under the tutelage of Doc Vickerson.  
The title character becomes engaged to two women and invites them both to lunch.  This novel begins in Elk Hills, where the title character grows up under the tutelage of Doc Vickerson.  While a research fellow at the McGurk Institute, the title character discovers the X Principle that might prove a cure for disease, though he learns it was already discovered at the Pasteur Institute.  Mentors in this novel include Max Gottlieb and Gustave Sondelius, and the title character's wife Leora dies from the plague on the island of St. Hubert.  FTP, identify this novel about a research scientist by Sinclair Lewis.
The title character becomes engaged to two women and invites them both to lunch.  
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