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Max Delbruck and Cologne : an early chapter of German molecular biology
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The history of molecular biology in Germany is closely linked to the Institute of Genetics in Cologne, the first molecular biological Institute at a German university. Founded in 1959 by the émigré...
The history of molecular biology in Germany is closely linked to the Institute of Genetics in Cologne, the first molecular biological Institute at a German university. Founded in 1959 by the émigré physicist and future Nobel laureate Max Delbrück, the Institute was the first in Germany to implement less hierarchical American organizational structures and research habits. The Institute had already gained an excellent international scientific reputation by the beginning of the 1960s.This volume comprises the recollections of scientists pertaining to the Institute's research, organization and oth
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- Simone Wenkel, Ute Deichmann [editors]
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- Language
- English
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- 1st ed
- Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2007
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- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1281928399, 9786611928391, 9812775811, 9812705473
- OCLC
- ocn780417043
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- pt. I. Introduction. 1. A brief review of the early history of genetics / Ute Deichmann -- pt. II. First initiatives, concept, founding and crisis . 2. Founding and crisis / Simone Wenkel. 3. Die erste Zeit / Carsten Bresch. 4. The new start / Peter Starlinger. 5. Building molecular biology in post-war Europe: between the atomic age and the American challenge / Bruno J. Strasser. 6. Beitrag zur Gedenfeier F�ur Max Delbr�uck / Joseph Straub. 7. Niels Bohr's last lecture : an introduction / Gunther S. Stent. 8. Light and life revisited / Niels Bohr -- pt. III. The beginnings. 9. Working with Max Delbr�uck / Charles N. David. 10. Recollections / Hans G. Zachau. 11. How chemistry met genetics / Horst Feldmann. 12. Eindr�cke eines doktoranden / Fritz Melchers. 13. The Institute's impact on neighbouring disciplines / George Michaelis. 14. Life with bacteriophages / Thomas A. Trautner -- pt. IV. Views from outside. 15. View from (Cologne) physics / Bernhard M�uhlschlegel. 16. In the smog of genetics : biochemistry in Cologne, my version of history / Lothar Jaenicke. 17. History and fate of a similar concept: the Biology Division of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas / Hans Bremer. 18. TMV in T�ubingen and its escapade with genetics / Karl-Wolfgang Mundry -- pt. V. Research and scientific collaboration. 19. Molecular virology and medical genetics at the Institute of Geneticsh in Cologne, 1972-2002 / Walter Doerfler. 20. T4 hets and five floors to hang around / Rainer Hertel. 21. The long way from glucose effects in bacteria to (systems-) biology / Joseph W. Lengeler. 22. Attempts to transfer to lab structure and scientific habits from Harvard to Cologne / Benno M�uller-Hill. 23. Joining the Institute of Genetics early on as an immunologist / Klaus Rajewsky. 24. Early years of transposon research in Cologne / Heinx Saedler -- pt. VI. Molecular biology and the German University structure. 25. Panel discussion / Hermann Bujard, Walter Doerfler, Klaus Rajewsky -- pt. VII. Establishment and teaching of molecular biology in Germany. 26. Panel Discussion / Charles N. David ... [et al.] -- pt. VIII. Final remarks. 27. Science and society / Peter Starlinger