LEADER 04229nam 22006135 450 001 9910781548303321 005 20220415022538.0 010 $a1-283-36279-1 010 $a9786613362797 010 $a0-226-76277-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226762777 035 $a(CKB)2550000000073721 035 $a(EBL)836882 035 $a(OCoLC)769628622 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000554559 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12158364 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554559 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10512989 035 $a(PQKB)11749415 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC836882 035 $a(DE-B1597)524106 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226762777 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073721 100 $a20200424h20112011 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCreating a Physical Biology $eThe Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology /$fPhillip R. Sloan, Brandon Fogel 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2011] 210 4$d©2011 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-76783-3 311 0 $a0-226-76782-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Introduction --$tChapter 2. Physics and Genes: From Einstein to Delbrück --$tChapter 3. Biophysics in Berlin: The Delbrück Club --$tChapter 4. Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: Target-Theoretical Research in the 1930s and 1940s --$tChapter 5. Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: Balancing Autonomy and Reductionism in Biology --$tChapter 6. Was Delbrück a Reductionist? --$tTranslator's Preface --$tThe Text of the Three-Man Paper --$tReferences in the Three-Man Paper --$tCombined Bibliography --$tList of Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aIn 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbrück published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure," known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper." This seminal paper advanced work on the physical exploration of the structure of the gene through radiation physics and suggested ways in which physics could reveal definite information about gene structure, mutation, and action. Representing a new level of collaboration between physics and biology, it played an important role in the birth of the new field of molecular biology. The paper's results were popularized for a wide audience in the What is Life? lectures of physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1944. Despite its historical impact on the biological sciences, the paper has remained largely inaccessible because it was only published in a short-lived German periodical. Creating a Physical Biology makes the Three Man Paper available in English for the first time. Brandon Fogel's translation is accompanied by an introductory essay by Fogel and Phillip Sloan and a set of essays by leading historians and philosophers of biology that explore the context, contents, and subsequent influence of the paper, as well as its importance for the wider philosophical analysis of biological reductionism. 606 $aMolecular biology$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGenetics$xHistory$y20th century 610 $abiology, biological, science, scientific, scientists, molecular, liberal studies, history, historical, humanities, genetics, geneticists, radiation, physics, physicists, quantum, gene, structure, mutation, three man paper, nikolai timofeeff-ressovsky, karl g zimmer, max delbruck, what is life, translation, translated work, analysis, inquiry, reductionism, 20th century, german, germany, biophysics, autonomy, perspectives. 615 0$aMolecular biology$xHistory 615 0$aGenetics$xHistory 676 $a572.809 702 $aFogel$b Brandon$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSloan$b Phillip R.$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781548303321 996 $aCreating a Physical Biology$93693989 997 $aUNINA