Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Title | Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology PDF eBook |
Author | John Cairns |
Publisher | Firefly Books |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780879695958 |
This is an expanded edition of the landmark collection of 35 essays by pioneers of molecular biology that was first published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbruck. The book was hailed as "[introducing] into the literature of science, for the first time, a self-conscious historical element in which the participants in scientific discovery engage in writing their own chronicle. As such, it is an important document in the history of biology..." (Journal of History of Biology). This new edition includes Gunther Stent's obituary of Max Delbruck, two commentaries on issues raised in the book reprinted from Scientific American and Science, and a new preface in which John Cairns reflects on the book's creation and molecular biology's "age of innocence."
Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Title | Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology PDF eBook |
Author | John Cairns |
Publisher | CSHL Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Bactériophages |
ISBN | 0879698004 |
First published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbrck, this influential work is republished as "The Centennial Edition." The book was hailed as "[introducing] into the literature of science, for the first time, a self-conscious historical element in which the participants in scientific discovery engage in writing their own chronicle ("Journal of History of Biology").
Félix d`Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Title | Félix d`Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology PDF eBook |
Author | William C. Summers |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1999-06-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300174250 |
A self-taught scientist determined to bring science out of the laboratory and into the practical arena, French-Canadian Felix d’Herelle (1873-1949) made history in two different fields of biology. Not only was he first to demonstrate the use and application of bacteria for biological control of insect pests, he also became a seminal figure in the history of molecular biology. This engaging book is the first full biography of d’Herelle, a complex figure who emulated Louis Pasteur and influenced the course of twentieth-century biology, yet remained a controversial outsider to the scientific community. Drawing on family papers, archival sources, interviews, and d’Herelle’s published and unpublished writings, Dr. William C. Summers tells the fascinating story of the scientist’s life and the work that took him around the globe. In 1917, d’Herelle published the first paper describing the phenomenon of the bacteriophage and its biological nature. A series of more than 110 articles and 6 major books followed, in which d’Herelle established the foundation for the later work of the Phage Group in molecular biology. Yet d’Herelle sometimes inspired animosity in others--he was drummed out of the Pasteur Institute, he held only one brief permanent position in the scientific establishment (at Yale University from 1928 to 1933), and he was bewildered by the social nuances of the world of international science. His story is more than the biography of a single brilliant scientist; it is also a fascinating chapter in the history of biology.
A History of Molecular Biology
Title | A History of Molecular Biology PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Morange |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674001695 |
Every day it seems the media focus on yet another new development in biology--gene therapy, the human genome project, the creation of new varieties of animals and plants through genetic engineering. These possibilities have all emanated from molecular biology. A History of Molecular Biology is a complete but compact account for a general readership of the history of this revolution. Michel Morange, himself a molecular biologist, takes us from the turn-of-the-century convergence of molecular biology's two progenitors, genetics and biochemistry, to the perfection of gene splicing and cloning techniques in the 1980s. Drawing on the important work of American, English, and French historians of science, Morange describes the major discoveries--the double helix, messenger RNA, oncogenes, DNA polymerase--but also explains how and why these breakthroughs took place. The book is enlivened by mini-biographies of the founders of molecular biology: Delbrück, Watson and Crick, Monod and Jacob, Nirenberg. This ambitious history covers the story of the transformation of biology over the last one hundred years; the transformation of disciplines: biochemistry, genetics, embryology, and evolutionary biology; and, finally, the emergence of the biotechnology industry. An important contribution to the history of science, A History of Molecular Biology will also be valued by general readers for its clear explanations of the theory and practice of molecular biology today. Molecular biologists themselves will find Morange's historical perspective critical to an understanding of what is at stake in current biological research.
Phage Origins Molecular Biology
Title | Phage Origins Molecular Biology PDF eBook |
Author | CARINS |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781621823186 |
Phage and the origins of molecular biology
Title | Phage and the origins of molecular biology PDF eBook |
Author | Richard C. Lewontin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 7 |
Release | 1968 |
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ISBN |
We Can Sleep Later
Title | We Can Sleep Later PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Day Hershey |
Publisher | CSHL Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780879695675 |
An absorbing portrait of the pioneering molecular biologist best known for demonstrating that DNA is the genetic component of phages, through essays and reminiscences from twenty–three distinguished scientists whose work and careers were influenced by the man and his science.