Designs for Life : Molecular Biology after World War II
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'de Chadarevian's historical account is recommended to all who are interested in the development of molecular biology.' Nature
Nominated as one of the top 5 Science books of 2002 by The Sunday Times.
'The author combines painstaking scholarship with superb narrative skills, and a gift for explaining technical matters accessibly ... required reading for anyone interested in the politics, personalities and mechanics of science - from sixth formers to government ministers.' John Cornwell, The Sunday Times
Book Description
Molecular biology has come to dominate our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the decades following World War II, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge was a world-renowned center of this emerging discipline. Crick and Watson, among others, did the work that made them famous in this laboratory. Soraya de Chadarevian's important new study is the first to examine the creation and expansion of molecular biology and its place on the postwar governmental agenda through the prism of this remarkable institution.
Designs for Life : Molecular Biology after World War II
Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II,Soraya de Chadarevian,Cambridge University Press,0521570786,20th century,General,Great Britain,History,History Of Medicine,Life Sciences - Biology - Molecular Biology,Molecular Biology,Science,Science/Mathematics,British Isles,Cambridgeshire,Genetics (non-medical),History of science,Medical / History,Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
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