Molecular Vision of Life Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology
Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology
1st Edition
Published on 9. January 1997
745 pages
978-0-19-536331-9 (ISBN)
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Molecular biology had its origins in chemistry and physical biochemistry between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA in the mid 1950s. Lily Kay argues that molecular biology did not ",evolve", in a random fashion but, rather, was an expression of systematic efforts by scientists and the foundations they relied upon for financial support to direct the development of biological research toward a shared vision of science and society.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Molecular Biology (A New Biology?)
- Rockefeller Foundation: Knowledge and Cultural Hegemony
- Caltech: Engineering and Consensus
- Molecular Vision of Life
- CHAPTER 1:"Social Control": Rockefeller Foundation's Agenda in the Human Sciences, 1913-1933
- Salvation through Experts
- Taming the Savage
- Toward a "New Science of Man"
- CHAPTER 2:Technological Frontier: Southern California and the Emergence of Life Science at Caltech
- Machine in the Pacific Garden, 1900-1930
- The Cooperative Ideal: Toward a Life Science at Caltech
- CHAPTER 3: Visions and Realities: The Biology Division in the Morgan Era
- Morgan and the New Biology: A Problem of Service Role
- Contradictory Elements
- INTERLUDE I: Protein Paradigm
- Heredity and the Protein View of Life
- Chemistry of Proteins during the 1930s: Theories and Technologies
- CHAPTER 4: From Flies to Molecules: Physiological Genetics During Morgan Era
- Jack Schultz: A Bridge to the Phenotype
- Beadle, Ephrussi, and the Physiology of Gene Action
- The Riddle of Life: Max Delbrück and Phage Genetics
- Nascent Trends: Toward Giant Protein Molecules
- CHAPTER 5: Convergence of Goals: From Physical Chemistry to Bio-Organic Chemistry, 1930-1940
- Gates Chemical Laboratory, 1930
- Vital Processes: Pauling and Weaver
- Crellin Laboratory: Nascent Trends
- CHAPTER 6: Spoils of War: Immunochemistry and Serological Genetics, 1940-1945
- Terra Incognita: Shift to Immunology
- Problem of Antibody Synthesis
- Science at War
- Terra Firma: 1944-1945
- CHAPTER 7: Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech
- New Biological System
- Selling Pure Science in Wartime
- Beadle's Return to Caltech
- INTERLUDE II: At a Crossroads: Shaping of Postwar Science
- Rockefeller Foundation and the New World Order
- Designing "Big Science": Caltech's "Magnificent Plan"
- CHAPTER 8: Molecular Empire (1946-1953)
- Life in a Black Box: The Rise of Delbrück's Phage School
- Key Team Member: Delbrück and the Phage Cult
- Protein Victory, Pure and Applied
- EPILOGUE
- Conclusion
- Key to Archival Sources
- Index
- Notes
