The Molecular Vision of Life

Zusatztext the book has the great merit to give insight in the expectation of young American scientists and in what troubles their minds! Klappentext The organizational history of Caltech is the loom on which Kay has woven an intricate fabric of the molecular vision of life. Zusammenfassung This text argues that molecular biology did not "evolve" in a random fashion but was an expression of systematic efforts by scientists and the foundations they relied upon for financial support to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society.

Autorentext
Lily E. Kay received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and was a recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in bibliography at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and has taught at the University of Chicago. Since 1989 she has been an assistant professor of history of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Klappentext
The organizational history of Caltech is the loom on which Kay has woven an intricate fabric of the molecular vision of life.

Zusammenfassung
This text argues that molecular biology did not "evolve" in a random fashion but was an expression of systematic efforts by scientists and the foundations they relied upon for financial support to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society.

Inhalt
1. "Social Control:" the Rockefeller Foundation's Agenda in the Human Sciences, 1913-1933; 2. The Technological Frontier: Southern California and the Emergence of Life Science at Caltech; 3. Visions and Realitites: The Biology Division in the Morgan Era; Interlude 1 -- The Protein Paradigm; 4. From Flies to Molecules: Physiological Genetics in the Morgan Era; 5. A Convergence of Goals: From Physical Chemistry to Bio-Organic Chemistry; 6. The Spoils of War: Immunochemistry and Serological Genetics, 1940-1945; 7. Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech; 8. The Molecular Empire

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