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George Beadle, an uncommon farmer : the emergence of genetics in the 20th century / Paul Berg, Maxine Singer.
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- ISBN: 0879696885 (alk. paper) :
- Physical Description: ix, 383 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor, NY : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2003.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer : The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century
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George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer : The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century
George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobel Prize-winning discovery with Edward Tatum that the role of genes is to specify proteins. From 1946 to 1960 he led the Caltech Biology Division, rebuilding it to a powerhouse in molecular biology, and afterwards became a successful President of the University of Chicago. This is the first biography of a giant of genetics, written by two of the field's most distinguished contributors, Paul Berg and Maxine Singer.
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