Designs for Life
Subtitle: Molecular Biology after World War II
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780521570787
Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); History of science; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Molecular Biology; History Of Medicine; Science; Science/Mathematics; British Isles; Cambridgeshire; General; Medical / History; Great Britain; Life Sciences - Biology - Molecular Biology; 20th century; History
First sentence: Recalling a series of meetings and discussions in the 1930s which he saw as 'the prehistory of molecular biology', British embryologist Conrad Waddington wondered how much sooner the 'factual information' on which the 'new ideas involved in the Crick-Watson synthesis' depended, might have been discovered, 'if the Second World War had not disrupted the lines of thought which led in direction of them' (Waddington 1969, 321).