The professor, the institute, and DNA
By: by René J. Dubos.
Publisher: Rockefeller University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955; Rockefeller University -- History; Microbiologists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Medical scientists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Description: Oswald Theodore Avery is little known outside of the scientific community. Yet, this extraordinary man, here brought vividly to life by a perceptive friend and sophisticated scientific colleague, was a monumental force in the development of medical research in the United States. Even among scientists, Avery is known chiefly as the senior author of a paper published in 1944 that identified DNA as the purveyor of genetic information. Two things make this highly personalized biography a landmark volume. First, its technical chapters clarify the philosophical concepts that lie behind today's understanding of the immunology of bacterial infection. Second, not a single existing textbook has ever described the laborious methods by which the men in Avery's laboratory discovered the genetic import of DNA
Notes: Bibliography: p. 199-216.
Includes index.