Search History

Holdings Information

Action Box More Info Navigation

    Action Navigation

    Action Box

    Bibliographic Record Display

    • Author/Creator:Summers, William C., author.
    • Title:The American Phage Group : founders of molecular biology / William C. Summers.
    • ISBN:0300263562
      9780300263565
    • Publication:New Haven ; London : Yale University Press ; [2022]
    • Copyright notice date: ©2022
    • Physical Description:300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

    • Yale Holdings

      Holdings Record Display

       
    • Summary:"This book is the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group--a small group of scientists who gathered around Max Delbrück, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey between 1940 and 1960--and how this novel research program became the foundation of the field of molecular biology. These three young, charismatic, and iconoclastic scientists were convinced of the importance of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) to the study of the gene and of heredity in general. Based on substantial archival research, numerous participant interviews collected over the past thirty years, and an intimate knowledge of the relevant scientific literature in the field, William C. Summers has written a fascinating new history of the American Phage Group. Rather than a linear narrative of progress by past heroes, this book emphasizes the diversity and historical contingencies in the group's development."--Page 4 of cover.
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 261-291) and index.
    • Subjects:American Phage Group--History.
      Molecular biologists--United States.
      Bacteriophages--Research--United States.
      Molecular biology--Research--United States.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16507627