Creating a physical biology : the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology / edited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel.

Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Physical description

ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel -- Historical origins of the Three-Man Paper -- Physics and genes: from Einstein to Delbrück / William C. Summers -- Biophysics in Berlin: the Delbrück club / Phillip R. Sloan -- Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: target-theoretical research in the 1930s and 1940s / Richard H. Beyler -- Philosophical perspectives on the Three-Man Paper -- Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: balancing autonomy and reductionism in biology / Nils Roll-Hansen -- Was Delbrück a reductionist? / Daniel J. McKaughan -- The Three-Man Paper -- Translator's preface / Brandon Fogel -- The text of the Three-Man Paper / translated by Brandon Fogel -- References in the Three-Man Paper / prepared by James Barham.

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    History of Medicine
    AOV.AA9
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  • 9780226767826
  • 0226767825
  • 9780226767833
  • 0226767833