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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
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. vii | |
| Introduction | p. 1 | |
| 1. | An Uncommon Farmer | p. 7 |
| 2. | Agricultural College at Lincoln | p. 17 |
| 3. | Genetics at the Quarter Century | p. 29 |
| 4. | The Corn Cooperation | p. 43 |
| 5. | The Fly Group | p. 61 |
| 6. | From Corn to Flies | p. 79 |
| 7. | Three-Eyed Flies | p. 95 |
| 8. | Becoming a Professor | p. 115 |
| 9. | From Flies to Molds | p. 131 |
| 10. | One Gene-One Protein | p. 153 |
| 11. | Confronting the Skeptics | p. 171 |
| 12. | In Morgan's Footsteps | p. 187 |
| 13. | Postwar Science and Politics | p. 205 |
| 14. | Genetics and the Nuclear Age | p. 223 |
| 15. | Oxford and the Nobel Prize | p. 241 |
| 16. | Becoming a University President | p. 255 |
| 17. | Restoring the University's Eminence | p. 271 |
| 18. | The Corn Wars | p. 289 |
| 19. | Epilogue | p. 307 |
| Notes | p. 317 | |
| Index | p. 363 |
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