Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume I, Number I

1961 FIRST ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY NOW IN 60TH YEAR, PUBLISHED PAPERS BY LUMINARIES OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY. 9 inches tall volume, printed green paper covers and spine, preface and 106 pages, Instructions to Authors; age-toning to cover edges, no ownership or institutional marks, very good. CONTENTS: Williams, R. J. P., Possible Functions of Chains of Catalysts; Hail, G. G., Permeation through a Spherical Membrane; Elsasser, Walter M., Quanta and the Concept of Organismic Law; Amesz, J., Duysens, L. X. M. and Brandt, D. C. Methods for Measuring and Correcting the Absorption Spectrum of Scattering Suspensions; Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, The Supra- and Submolecular in Biology; Andrewartha, H, G. and Browning, T. 0., An Analysis of the Idea of Resources in Animal Ecology; Lowenstein, John M., Reductions and Oxidations in Mammalian Biosyntheses; Bell, L G. E. Surface Extension as the Mechanism of Cellular Movement and Cell Division. THE JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering theoretical biology, as well as mathematical, computational and statistical aspects of biology. It is often referred to informally by the initials 'JTB'. The journal was established in 1961. Its founding editor-in-chief was English biologist James F. Danielli, who remained editor until his death in 1984. Other notable founding members of the Editorial Board included Melvin Calvin, Barry Commoner, Christian De Duve, Daniel Mazia, Jacques Monod, Conrad Waddington, and John Zachary Young. This issue includes papers by luminaries of mid-20th century biology: ROBERT J. P. WILLIAMS (1926 - 2015), an English chemist, with a focus on bioinorganic chemistry. Together with Harry Irving he formulated the well-known Irving-Williams series. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972 and won the Royal Medal in 1995. GEORGE GARFIELD HALL (1925-2018), was a Northern Irish applied mathematician known for original work and contributions to the field of Quantum chemistry. He independently from Clemens C. J. Roothaan discovered the Roothaan-Hall equations. He was elected to a Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge in 1953. From 1955 to 1962 he lectured in Mathematics at the Imperial College, London. In 1957-58 he spent a year with Per-Olov Lawdin in Uppsala, Sweden. He became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nottingham in 1962. WALTER M. ELSASSER (1904 - 1991) was a German-born American physicist considered a father of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. He revealed the history of the Earth's magnetic field through pioneering the study of the magnetic orientation of minerals in rocks. Over 194647, Elsasser published papers describing the first mathematical model for the origin of the Earth's magnetic field. In his later years, Elsasser became interested in what is now called systems biology and contributed a series of articles to Journal of Theoretical Biology. The final version of his thoughts on this subject can be found in his book Reflections on a Theory of Organisms, published in 1987 and again posthumously with a new foreword by Harry Rubin in 1998. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI (1893 - 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war. In the late 1950s, Szent-Gyorgyi developed a research interest in cancer and developed ideas on applying the theories of quantum mechanics to the biochemistry (quantum biology) of cancer. HERBERT GEORGE ANDREWARTHA (1907 - 1992) was a distinguished Australian research scientist in the fields of entomology, biology, zoology and animal ecology. In the twentieth century, Andrewartha became the most influential Australian ecologist, and best known for attributing density-independent forces, such as weather, to be even more important than density-dependent factors in influencing population regulation. Andrewartha and Charles Birch found a new school of population ecology, which emphasized the role of environmental controls as opposed to community-dependent approach based on density-dependent factors. JOHN M. LOWENSTEIN (1926-2012) was Professor of Biochemistry at Brandeis University, where he taught for fifty years. From 1974-1995 he held the Helen Rubenstein Chair in Biochemistry; and he was also chair of the department in the 1990s. By the early 1970s, Lowenstein had worked out the function of the AMP-deaminase, the founding member of a family of enzymes that are very important in health and disease. He then went on to do something only a handful of scientists have ever done: he discovered a metabolic pathway, the purine nucleotide cycle that AMP deaminase functions in. SOME OF THE MOST HIGHLY CITED ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL: Hamilton, W.D. (1964). The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 7 (1): 17-52. a classic paper dealing with inclusive fitness; Zuckerkandl, E.; Pauling, L. (1965). Molecules as documents of evolutionary history. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 8 (2): 357-366. another classic paper, one of those which had set the stage for comparative molecular biology. Kauffman, S.A. (1969). Metabolic stability and epigenesis in randomly constructed genetic nets. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 22 (3): 437-67. Maynard Smith, J. (1974). The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 47 (1): 209-21. Zahavi, Amotz (1975). Mate selection - a selection for a handicap. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 53 (1): 205-14.

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