Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology

1966 - 60TH BIRTHDAY FESTSCHRIFT FOR MAX DELBRUCK WITH ESSAYS BY THE LUMINARIES OF EARLY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 10 inches tall hardcover, charcoal coth covers, red cloth spine with gilt title, previous owner name to front paste-down and flyleaf, frontis portrait of Max Delbruck, x, 340 pp, Contributors include: Anderson, T.F., Beadle, G.W., Benzer, S., Cairns, J., Delbruck, M., Doermann, A.H., Dulbecco, R., Edgar, R.S., Ellis, E.L., Hayes, W., Hershey, A.D., Hotchkiss, R.D., Jerne, N.K., Kaiser, A.D., Kalckar, H.M., Kellenberger, E., Kozloff, L.M., Luria, S.E., Lwoff, A., Maaloe, O., Meselson, M., Novick, A., Puck, T.T., Reichardt, W.E., Rubin, H., Sinsheimer, R.L., Stahl, F.W., Stent, G.S., Streisinger, G., Visconti, N., Watson, J.D., Weigle, J., Wollman, E.L., Zimmer, K.G. EDITORS: JOHN CAIRNS (1922 - 2018) was a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health. Cairns took a sabbatical to research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory between 1960 and 1961, and returned there to serve as the director from 1963 to 1968. He remained a staff member at Cold Spring Harbor until 1972, when he was appointed head of the Mill Hill Laboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. After leaving Mill Hill in 1980 he took up a professorship at the Harvard School of Public Health. GUNTHER S. STENT (1924 - 2008) was Graduate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the early bacteriophage biologists, he was known also for his studies on the metabolism of bacteria and neurobiology of leeches, and for his writing on the history and philosophy of biology. JAMES D. WATSON (born 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. From 1968 Watson served as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), greatly expanding its level of funding and research. At CSHL, he shifted his research emphasis to the study of cancer, along with making it a world-leading research center in molecular biology. In 1994, he started as president and served for 10 years.

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Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology

Year: 1966

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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