Book ID: CBB000100712

We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology (2000)

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Stahl, Franklin W. (Editor)


Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xii + 359 pp., illus., figs., tables, index
Language: English

Description Includes 22 memories of molecular biologist Hershey (d. 1997), including those by Franklin Stahl, James D. Watson, Gunther Stent, John Cairns, Seymour Benzer.


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Review Wolfe, Audra J. (2002) Review of "We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 133). unapi

Review Lyons, Sherrie (2002) Review of "We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 538). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg
Thieffry, Denis
Edelson, Edward
Gross, Carol A.
Echols, Harrison
Strasser, Bruno J.
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Revue des Questions Scientifiques
Lychnos
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of California Press
Alfred A. Knopf
Perseus
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Sinauer Associates
Concepts
Molecular biology
Discipline formation
Biology
DNA; RNA
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Genetics
People
Watson, James Dewey
Crick, Francis
Brachet, Jean
Dalcq, Albert
McElroy, William David
Franklin, Rosalind
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Belgium
Geneva (Switzerland)
United States
Great Britain
Institutions
McCollum-Pratt Institute
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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