This hugely influential book, published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbruck, is now republished as The Centennial Edition. On first publication, 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). And in another review it was described as ''required reading for every student of experimental biology...[who] will sense the smell and rattle of the laboratory'' (Bioscience). The book was a formative influence on many of today's leading scientists. Related Titles from the Publisher Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (Expanded Edition); Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (First Edition); The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology; Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA; The Statue Within: An Autobiography; George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century; Conversations in Genetics: An Oral History of Our Intellectual Heritage in Genetics; A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society; We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology
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''There are those who cherish first editions, but the centennial edition, which contains everything in earlier versions, has a bonus beyond the inclusion of the gallery of photographs - it is cheaper than most of its well-worn predecessors. I heartily recommend the book to those who have never read these personal narratives of the early days of microbial genetics. All can benefit and learn from Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Molecular biology is not dead! Long live the phage!'' --The Quarterly Review of Biology
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This book recreates the times where an intimately connected group of brilliant young scientits came togeteher to do research around the inspiring and challenging Max Delbruck. What mattered above all was the science.And everything fell in place: Cold Spring Harbor, Cambridge, Institut Pasteur and Caltech. What came out is Molecular Biology, no more, no less... Read this book to understand that science like this can only happen once and the atmosphere around it can never be duplicated.
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Shortly before the end of World War II the great Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrodinger, then living as an anti-Nazi emigre in Ireland, wrote the little book "What is Life?" that was to draw wide attention to the dawn of a new epoch in biological research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patterned cylinder, gal loci, parental atoms, vegetative phage, informational school, optomotor response, multiplicity reactivation, phage workers, intracellular phage, prototrophic recombinants, completely synthetic medium, phage course, single mammalian cells, dogmatic phase, phage reproduction, phage multiplication, phage research, phage growth, animal virology, phage development, lysogenic bacterium, lysogenic bacteria, phage chromosome, leukosis viruses, virus reproduction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold Spring Harbor Symp, New York, California Institute of Technology, Gunther Stent, James Watson, Academic Press, Jacques Monod, Renato Dulbecco, Rockefeller Foundation, Green Pamphlet, World War, Copenhagen Spirit, Alfred Hershey, Biology Division, Francis Crick, George Streisinger, Frank Stahl, Pasteur Institute, Allan Campbell, Linus Pauling, Oak Ridge, University of California, Woods Hole, Carnegie Inst, Cornell University New!
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Shortly before the end of World War II the great Austrian physicist, Erwin Schrodinger, then living as an anti-Nazi emigre in Ireland, wrote the little book "What is Life?" that was to draw wide attention to the dawn of a new epoch in biological research. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patterned cylinder, gal loci, parental atoms, vegetative phage, informational school, optomotor response, multiplicity reactivation, phage workers, intracellular phage, prototrophic recombinants, completely synthetic medium, phage course, single mammalian cells, dogmatic phase, phage reproduction, phage multiplication, phage research, phage growth, animal virology, phage development, lysogenic bacterium, lysogenic bacteria, phage chromosome, leukosis viruses, virus reproduction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold Spring Harbor Symp, New York, California Institute of Technology, Gunther Stent, James Watson, Academic Press, Jacques Monod, Renato Dulbecco, Rockefeller Foundation, Green Pamphlet, World War, Copenhagen Spirit, Alfred Hershey, Biology Division, Francis Crick, George Streisinger, Frank Stahl, Pasteur Institute, Allan Campbell, Linus Pauling, Oak Ridge, University of California, Woods Hole, Carnegie Inst, Cornell University New!
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- PHYSIOLOGICAL GENETICS (Genes, Cells, & Organisms) by Goldschmid on page 31
- Introduction to Genetics by A.H. Sturtevant on page 31
- Mind from Matter by Max Delbruck on page 363
- Sensory Communication by Walter A. Rosenblith on page 334
- Detoxication and Drug Metabolism: Conjugation and Related Systems, Volume 77: Volume 77: Detoxification and Drug Metabolism (Methods in Enzymology) by Nathan P. Kaplan on page 285
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- The Microbial Models of Molecular Biology: From Genes to Genomes by Rowland H. Davis on 6 pages
- Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code (Writing Science) by Lily Kay on 4 pages
- The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort on 4 pages
- Inside Story: DNA to RNA to Protein (History) by Jan A. Witkowski on 4 pages
- Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease by Barton Childs in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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