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George Beadle, an uncommon farmer : the emergence of genetics in the 20th century / Paul Berg, Maxine Singer.
Van Pelt Library QH429.2.B37 B37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berg, Paul, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beadle, George Wells, 1903-1989.
- Beadle, George Wells.
- Geneticists--United States--Biography.
- Geneticists.
- Molecular biologists--United States--Biography.
- Molecular biologists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. An Uncommon Farmer 7
- 2. Agricultural College at Lincoln 17
- 3. Genetics at the Quarter Century 29
- 4. The Corn Cooperation 43
- 5. The Fly Group 61
- 6. From Corn to Flies 79
- 7. Three-Eyed Flies 95
- 8. Becoming a Professor 115
- 9. From Flies to Molds 131
- 10. One Gene-One Protein 153
- 11. Confronting the Skeptics 171
- 12. In Morgan's Footsteps 187
- 13. Postwar Science and Politics 205
- 14. Genetics and the Nuclear Age 223
- 15. Oxford and the Nobel Prize 241
- 16. Becoming a University President 255
- 17. Restoring the University's Eminence 271
- 18. The Corn Wars 289.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-361) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0879696885
- OCLC:
- 52182634
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