Houses for science : a pictorial history of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory / by Elizabeth L. Watson ; with Landmarks of twentieth century genetics : a series of essays / by James D. Watson ; principal architectural photograhy by Andrew Garn.

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Watson, Elizabeth L.

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Publication:

Plainview, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1991.

Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-437) and index.
Village of science: a preservationist's view -- Looking at the laboratory/William H. Grover -- Before the biologists arrived the western shore of cold spring harbor was called bungtown and earlier wawepex -- Address of presentation/W.R.T. Jones -- Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences sponsors a biological laboratory at cold spring harbor, 1890-1924 -- Essay on marine biology: following in darwin's footsteps -- Carnegie institution of washington establishes a station for experimental evolution at cold spring harbor, 1904-1940 -- Essay on classical genetics: expanding the scope of mendel's laws -- LIBA, a group of neighbors, takes charge of the bio lab, 1920-1940 -- Essay on quantitative biology: explaining life in terms of molecules -- Carnegie department of genetics and the biological laboratory share resources and later join forces, becoming the cold spring harbor laboratory of quantitative biology, 1940-1970 -- Essay on microbial genetics: chemically defining the gene -- Essay on molecular biology: finding out how genes work -- Cold spring harbor laboratory adaptively reuses its bungtown heritage, 1970-1980 -- Essay on tumor virology: finding the genes that cause cancer -- Laboratories at cold spring harbor expand in all directions -- Essay on recombinant dna: key to gene cloning -- Essay on the human genome: working out the complete genetic instructions for human existence -- Cold spring harbor laboratory enters its second century as a university of dna -- Poaster for the brain: 1990 cold spring harbor symposium on quantitative biology

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ISBN:

0879694033
9780879694036

Subject:

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory History.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Genetics history
Laboratories history
21.71 commercial and industrial buildings.
Long Island (N.Y.)
United States
New York (State) Long Island
Cold History

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Watson, James D., 1928- Landmarks of twentieth century genetics.

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Location: Library main 91369
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B431
Status: Available

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