Book ID: CBB000830131

Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology (2007)

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Wenkel, Simone (Editor)
Deichmann, Ute (Editor)


World Scientific


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Papers based on April 2005 Workshop
Physical Details: xii + 318 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Founded in 1959 by Max Delbrück, the Institute of Genetics in Cologne was the first molecular biological Institute at a German university. Contents includes:


Reviewed By

Review Morange, Michel (2009) Review of "Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 339). unapi

Review Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (2011) Review of "Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 179). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Deichmann, U. (2007) A Brief Review of the Early History of Genetics and Its Relationship to Physics and Chemistry. In: Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology. unapi

Chapter Wenkel, S. (2007) Founding and Crisis. In: Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology. unapi

Chapter Strasser, B. J. (2007) Building Molecular Biology in Post-War Europe: Between the Atomic Age and the American Challenge. In: Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology. unapi

Chapter Doerfler, W. (2007) Molecular Virology and Medical Genetics at the Institute of Genetics in Cologne, 1972--2002. In: Max Delbrück and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Molecular Biology. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Summers, William C.
Sankaran, Neeraja
Dietmar Steverding
Leyla Joaquim
Opitz, Donald L.
Zimmer, Karl Günter
Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Physics in Perspective
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Journal of the History of Biology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Springer-Verlag
de Gruyter
Yale University Press
Simon & Schuster
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Molecular biology
Physics
Virology
Genetics
Biology
Chemistry
People
Delbrück, Max
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Planck, Max
Burnet, Frank Macfarlane
Timofeev-Resovskii, Nikolai Vladimirovich
Koch, Robert
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Modern
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Germany
England
Americas
United States
France
Australia
Institutions
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Harvard University
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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