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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495881703321

Autore

Sinsheimer Robert

Titolo

The strands of a life : the science of DNA and the art of education / / Robert L. Sinsheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California, c1994

ISBN

0-585-18437-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 318 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

574.8/8/092

Soggetti

Molecular biologists - United States

College administrators - United States

Biology

Health & Biological Sciences

Biology - General

Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Boyhood and Youth -- The Molding -- Transition 1 -- MIT -- The Shaping -- World War ll -- The Radiation Laboratory -- Transition 2 -- Graduate School -- Iowa State -- The Young Professor -- Iowa State -- Research and Discovery -- Max Delbruck -- A Caltech Interlude -- A Sidelight on Watson and Crick -- Iowa State -- At Full Speed -- Transition 3 -- OX -- The Caltech Years -- The Fulfillment -- Of Honors, Awards, and Prizes -- Transition 4 -- Science and Society -- Toward Wider Horizons -- The Caltech Years -- The Chairman -- Transition 5 -- The prologue -- The Education of a Chancellor -- The Club of Nine -- Two Presidents -- The Regents -- The Faculty -- The Students -- The Community -- "What Does the Chancellor Do?" -- The Telescope and the Genome -- Transition 6 -- Return to Science -- "We Happy Few" -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Sinsheimer chronicles his life, including research in molecular biology and his leadership roles at the University of California at Santa Cruz.