The Bacteriophages
Subtitle: Volume 1 (The Viruses)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 30, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780306427305
Subjects: Medical microbiology & virology; Microorganisms; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Microbiology; Medical / Microbiology; Bacteriophages
First sentence: Molecular biology evolved from multiple origins including the antivitalist biology of the early twentieth century which attempted to explain complex biological phenomena in terms of physical and chemical phenomena (16, 21), the Rockefeller Foundation program, led by physicists and mathematicians who believed the "human sciences" were ripe for deeper understanding based on chemistry and physics (29), research by physicists and chemists who saw life as a challenge to their burgeoning understanding of the fundamental structure of matter (2, c22), and work by a few microbiologists and geneticists who sought better understanding of the natures of genes and microbes (23).