Professor Frederic Lawrence Holmes: 2 books
Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA
A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology"
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a most beautiful” experiment whose beauty was tied to...
Reconceiving the Gene
Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer’s accomplishments are widely recognized as a tipping point in mid-twentieth-century molecular biology when the nature...