LEADER 04202nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910953426803321 005 20250728182414.0 010 $a9786613362797 010 $a9781283362795 010 $a1283362791 010 $a9780226762777 010 $a0226762777 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(Perlego)1853587 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073721 100 $a20110607d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCreating a physical biology $ethe Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology /$fedited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226767833 311 08$a0226767833 311 08$a9780226767826 311 08$a0226767825 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction / Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel -- Historical origins of the Three-Man Paper -- Physics and genes: from Einstein to Delbruck / William C. Summers -- Biophysics in Berlin: the Delbruck club / Phillip R. Sloan -- Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: target-theoretical research in the 1930s and 1940s / Richard H. Beyler -- Philosophical perspectives on the Three-Man Paper -- Niels Bohr and Max Delbruck: balancing autonomy and reductionism in biology / Nils Roll-Hansen -- Was Delbruck a reductionist? / Daniel J. McKaughan -- The Three-Man Paper -- Translator's preface / Brandon Fogel -- The text of the Three-Man Paper / translated by Brandon Fogel -- References in the Three-Man Paper / prepared by James Barham. 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$y20th century 615 0$aMolecular biology$xHistory 615 0$aGenetics$xHistory 676 $a572.809 701 $aZimmer$b Karl Gu?nter$f1911-1988$01835067 701 $aDelbru?ck$b Max$0386488 701 $aSloan$b Phillip R$01325497 701 $aFogel$b D. Brandon$01808275 701 2$aTimofeev-Resovskii?$b N. V$g(Nikolai? Vladimirovich),$f1900-1981.$01808276 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953426803321 996 $aCreating a physical biology$94410767 997 $aUNINA