Assertion: biology's research | /r/CapableOf | coin term molecular biology
Facets:
value: in 1938
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Warren Weaver—head of the science division of the Rockefeller Foundation—issued grants to promote research that applied the methods of physics and chemistry to basic biological problems, coining the term molecular biology for this approach in 1938; many of the significant biological breakthroughs of the 1930s and 1940s were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.