Article ID: CBB000073346

Wendell Stanley's dream of a free-standing biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley (1996)

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Description “Stanley's and Sproul's endeavors to realize this vision [a free-standing biochemistry department] for life science at Berkeley illuminate the complex factors that made possible the growth of basic biochemistry in the United States after World War II.”


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Authors & Contributors
Seidel, Robert W.
Heilbron, John L.
Wheaton, Bruce R.
Murray, Stephen Butler
Wood, Susan Marie
Kugel, Rebecca
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Social Science History
Physics Today
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of Historical Sociology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of California, Riverside
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
University California Los Angeles, Brain Research Institute
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Office for History of Science and Technology, University California
University of Virginia
Concepts
Science and society
Biochemistry
Universities and colleges
Botany
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Medical physics
People
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
Stanley, Wendell Meredith
Sumner, James
Northrop, John Howard
Kroeber, Alfred Louis
Grodzins, Morton
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
California (U.S.)
United States
British Isles
Institutions
University of California
Stanford University
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