Outsider scientists
Subtitle: routes to innovation in biology
By: edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780226078373; 9780226078403
Subjects: Biologists; Biology; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : outsiders as innovators in the life sciences  -- Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich; title: The many sides of Gregor Mendel  -- Sander Gliboff; title: Louis Pasteur : the chemist in the clinic  -- Jonathan Simon; title: Félix d'Herelle : uncompromising autodidact  -- William C. Summers; title: The paradox of Samuel Butler : insider or outsider?  -- Michael Ruse; title: Erwin Schrödinger's excursus on genetics  -- Sahotra Sarkar; title: Linus Pauling : leading exporter of chemical insights into biology  -- Gregory J. Morgan; title: From bomb to bank : Walter Goad and the introduction of computers into biology  -- Hallam Stevens; title: R.A. Fisher and the foundations of statistical biology  -- Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper, Jr.; title: Nicolas Rashevsky's pencil-and-paper biology  -- Maya M. Shmailov; title: Searching for patterns, hunting for causes : Robert MacArthur, the mathematical naturalist  -- Jay Odenbaugh; title: Noam Chomsky and the biology of language  -- W. Tecumseh Fitch; title: Dunking the Tarzanists : Elaine Morgan and the aquatic ape theory  -- Erika Lorraine Milam; title: David Hull's philosophical contribution to biology  -- T.J. Horder; title: Ilya Metchnikoff : from evolutionist to immunologist, and back again  -- Alfred I. Tauber; title: François Jacob : tinkering with organisms and models  -- Michel Morange; title: Theoreticians as professional outsiders : the modeling strategies of John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener  -- Ehud Lamm; title: On the importance of the parvenu : the amazing case of George Price in evolutionary biology  -- Oren Harman; title: Outsiders and in-laws : Drew Endy and the case of synthetic biology  -- Luis Campos; title: Epilogue : the problem with boxes -- Richard C. Lewontin.