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9780226767833: Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology
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ISBN 10: 0226767833 ISBN 13: 9780226767833
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2011

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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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Phillip R. Sloan is professor emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Brandon Fogel is the Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago.

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226767833
ISBN 13 
9780226767833
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
330
Redattore
Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780226767826: Creating a Physical Biology: The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

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ISBN 10:  0226767825 ISBN 13:  9780226767826
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2011
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