Creating a physical biology : the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology

Publication Data

• Title Creating a physical biology : the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology
• Contributors Karl Günter Zimmer, Max Delbrück, Phillip R. Sloan, D. Brandon Fogel
• Publisher The University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Chicago
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Phillip R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel
Historical origins of the Three-Man Paper
Physics and genes: from Einstein to Delbrück / William C. Summers
Biophysics in Berlin: the Delbrück club / Phillip R. Sloan
Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: target-theoretical research in the 1930s and 1940s / Richard H. Beyler
Philosophical perspectives on the Three-Man Paper
Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: balancing autonomy and reductionism in biology / Nils Roll-Hansen
Was Delbrück a reductionist? / Daniel J. McKaughan
The Three-Man Paper
Translator's preface / Brandon Fogel
The text of the Three-Man Paper / translated by Brandon Fogel
References in the Three-Man Paper / prepared by James Barham.

Topics

• Delbrück, Max
• Zimmer, Karl Günter, 1911-
• Molecular biology :: History :: 20th century
• 015965135

Creating a physical biology : the Three-Man Paper and early molecular biology. ISBN 9780226767833. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.