Creating a physical biology : the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology / / edited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Disciplina: 572.809
• Soggetto topico: Molecular biology - History - 20th century; Genetics - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: ZimmerKarl Günter <1911-1988> DelbrückMax SloanPhillip R FogelD. Brandon Timofeev-ResovskiĭN. V <1900-1981.> (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Creating a physical biology
• ISBN: 9786613362797; 9781283362795; 1283362791; 9780226762777; 0226762777
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910953426803321
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