Creating a physical biology : the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology / edited by Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmer, Karl Günter, 1911-1988

Delbrück, Max.

Sloan, Phillip R.

Fogel, D. Brandon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981. Über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur.

Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V.

Delbrück, Max.

Zimmer, Karl Günter, 1911-1988.

Zimmer, Karl Günter.

Molecular biology--History--20th century.

Molecular biology.

Genetics--History--20th century.

Genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbrück published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure," known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper." This seminal paper advanced work on the physical exploration of the structure of the gene through radiation physics and suggested ways in which physics could reveal definite information about gene structure, mutation, and action. Representing a new level of collaboration between physics and biology, it played an important role in the birth of the new field of molecular biology. The paper's results were popularized for a wide audience in the What is Life? lectures of physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1944. Despite its historical impact on the biological sciences, the paper has remained largely inaccessible because it was only published in a short-lived German periodical. Creating a Physical Biology makes the Three Man Paper available in English for the first time. Brandon Fogel's translation is accompanied by an introductory essay by Fogel and Phillip Sloan and a set of essays by leading historians and philosophers of biology that explore the context, contents, and subsequent influence of the paper, as well as its importance for the wider philosophical analysis of biological reductionism.

Contents:

Introduction / Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel

Historical origins of the Three-Man Paper

Physics and genes: from Einstein to Delbruck / William C. Summers

Biophysics in Berlin: the Delbruck club / Phillip R. Sloan

Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: target-theoretical research in the 1930s and 1940s / Richard H. Beyler

Philosophical perspectives on the Three-Man Paper

Niels Bohr and Max Delbruck: balancing autonomy and reductionism in biology / Nils Roll-Hansen

Was Delbruck a reductionist? / Daniel J. McKaughan

The Three-Man Paper

Translator's preface / Brandon Fogel

The text of the Three-Man Paper / translated by Brandon Fogel

References in the Three-Man Paper / prepared by James Barham.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contains:

Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Vladimirovich), 1900-1981. Über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur. English

ISBN:

9786613362797

9781283362795

1283362791

9780226762777

0226762777

OCLC:

769628622