Roy John Britten died on 21 January at the age of 92 in Corona del Mar, California. Born in Washington, DC, in 1919, his academic career took him to both coasts of the United States, where his fundamental discoveries in DNA sequence organization and gene expression influenced the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology and heralded the era of modern genomics
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Onaga, Lisa A.;
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Ray Wu as Fifth Business: Deconstructing Collective Memory in the History of DNA Sequencing
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Susman, Millard;
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James F. Crow (1916--2012)
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Hagemann, Rudolf;
(2006)
Curt Stern (1902--1981): Drosophila-Genetiker und Human-Genetiker in Deutschland und den USA
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Guido Barbujani;
(2017)
What Genetics Has to Say about Racial Categorization of Humans
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Samanth Subramanian;
(2020)
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
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Alessandro Minelli;
(2020)
Genes, embryos and evolution
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Stickgold-Sarah, Jessie;
(2011)
The Textual Body: Genetics and Dystopia in American Fiction
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Rhodri Leng;
Gil Viry;
Miguel García-Sancho;
James Lowe;
Mark Wong;
Niki Vermeulen;
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The Sequences and the Sequencers: What Can a Mixed-Methods Approach Reveal about the History of Genomics?
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Mays Hoopes, Laura L.;
(2010)
Breaking through the Spiral Ceiling: An American Woman Becomes a DNA Scientist
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Oldroyd, Benjamin P.;
Mayo, Oliver;
(2011)
Rossiter Henry Crozier 1943--2009
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Leeming, William;
(2011)
Graphical and Computationally Intensive Techniques for Presenting and Disseminating Information about the Genetics of Disease: Possibilities, Limitations, and Additions
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Rhodri Leng;
Gil Viry;
Mark Wong;
Niki Vermeulen;
James Lowe;
(2022)
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics
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James Lowe;
Rhodri Leng;
Gil Viry;
Mark Wong;
Niki Vermeulen;
Miguel García-Sancho;
(2022)
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics
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Ute Deichmann;
(2017)
Eric Davidson, His Philosophy, and the History of Science
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Lombardo, Paul A.;
(2011)
A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era
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(2013)
The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman
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Olby, Robert;
(2009)
Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets
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Weir, Bruce S.;
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Estimating F-Statistics: A Historical View
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James Lowe;
Miguel García-Sancho;
Rhodri Leng;
Mark Wong;
Niki Vermeulen;
Gil Viry;
(2022)
Across and within Networks: Thickening the History of Genomics
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Essay Review
Diogo Meyer;
(2016)
Science that Matters
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