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Félix d'Herelle and the origins of molecular biology / William C. Summers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Summers, William C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- D'Herelle, Félix.
- D'Herelle, Félix.
- Microbiologists--Canada--Biography.
- Microbiologists.
- Molecular biology--History--20th century.
- Molecular biology.
- Microbiology--history.
- Molecular Biology--history.
- Microbiology--Canada--History.
- Molecular Biology--Canada--History.
- Microbiologists--Biography--20th century--Canada.
- Molecular biology--History.
- Biology.
- Genetics.
- Biochemistry.
- Molecular Biology.
- Microbiology.
- Biological Science Disciplines.
- Chemistry.
- Natural Science Disciplines.
- Occupations.
- Canada.
- Medical Subjects:
- D'Herelle, Félix.
- Microbiology--history.
- Molecular Biology--history.
- Microbiology--Canada--History.
- Molecular Biology--Canada--History.
- Biology.
- Genetics.
- Biochemistry.
- Molecular Biology.
- Microbiology.
- Biological Science Disciplines.
- Chemistry.
- Natural Science Disciplines.
- Occupations.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 230 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A self-taught scientist determined to bring science out of the laboratory and into the practical arena, French-Canadian Felix d'Herelle (1873-1949) made history in two different fields of biology. Not only was he first to demonstrate the use and application of bacteria for biological control of insect pests, he also became a seminal figure in the history of molecular biology. This book is the first full biography of d'Herelle, a complex figure who emulated Louis Pasteur and influenced the course of twentieth-century biology, yet remained a controversial outsider to the scientific community.
- Contents:
- 1. Peregrinations of Youth
- 2. Fermentations: Guatemala and Mexico
- 3. Epizootics: Locusts in Argentina and Algeria
- 4. Bacteriophage Discovered
- 5. Reaction and Controversy
- 6. The Nature of Phage: Microbe or Enzyme?
- 7. The Origin of Life: Colloids and Protobes
- 8. The Hope of Phage Therapy
- 9. Fighting Cholera and Plague in India
- 10. Bacterial Mutations and Phage Research at Yale
- 11. To Tiflis and Back
- 12. Reflections and Legacies
- Appendix. "On an Invisible Microbe Antagonistic to the Dysentery Bacillus" ("Sur un microbe invisible antagoniste des bacilles dysenteriques") by Felix d'Herelle (1917).
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-17425-X
- 0-585-35657-2
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