Creating a physical biology
Subtitle: the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology
By: edited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel
Contributors: Delbrück, Max; Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780226767826; 9780226767833
Subjects: Genetics; Molecular biology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel; title: Historical origins of the Three-Man Paper; title: Physics and genes: from Einstein to Delbrück / William C. Summers; title: Biophysics in Berlin: the Delbrück club / Phillip R. Sloan; title: Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: target-theoretical research in the 1930s and 1940s / Richard H. Beyler; title: Philosophical perspectives on the Three-Man Paper; title: Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: balancing autonomy and reductionism in biology / Nils Roll-Hansen; title: Was Delbrück a reductionist? / Daniel J. McKaughan; title: The Three-Man Paper; title: Translator's preface / Brandon Fogel; title: The text of the Three-Man Paper / translated by Brandon Fogel; title: References in the Three-Man Paper / prepared by James Barham.