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050 00 $aQH311$b.B49 1993
082 00 $a574$220
245 04 $aThe Biological century :$bFriday evening talks at the Marine Biological Laboratory /$cedited by Robert Barlow, Jr. [and others].
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1993.
263 $a9301
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336 $atext$2rdacontent
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338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Garland E. Allen -- 1. The Mechanistic Conception of Life: Loeb the Teacher, Stein the Student at the MBL / Gerald Weissmann -- 2. Genetic Maps - Fruit Flies, People, Bacteria and Molecules: A Tribute to Morgan and Sturtevant / Joshua Lederberg -- 3. Determinants of Development: From Conklin and Lillie to the Present / J. B. Gurdon -- 4. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: "To see what every one has seen and think what no one has thought" / Benjamin Kaminer -- 5. Keith Porter and the Fine Architecture of Living Cells / Shinya Inoue -- 6. Channels, Pumps, and Osmotic Machines in Plants: A Tribute to Osterhout / Clifford L. Slayman -- 7. Sodium and Potassium Channels and Propagation of the Nerve Impulse: A Tribute to Cole and Hodgkin / Clay M. Armstrong -- 8. Establishing the Molecular Basis of Vision: Hecht and Wald / Meredithe L. Applebury -- 9. Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception: The Legacy of Hartline and Kuffler / Torsten Wiesel.
505 0 $a10. Analyzing the Superorganism: The Legacy of Whitman and Wheeler / Edward O. Wilson -- 11. Ecology in Woods Hole: Baird, Bigelow, and Redfield / John E. Hobbie and John B. Pearce.
520 $aAt the 1988 summer session, the internationally famous Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts celebrated one hundred years of pioneering science. During the centennial festivities, many of the world's most renowned biologists assembled at MBL and delivered the Lab's traditional Friday Night Lectures, which as always were extraordinary and memorable. These lectures have been gathered and judiciously edited here by three eminent participants.
520 8 $aEach centennial lecture is dedicated to one or two MBL pioneers, investigators at the forefront of the "new biology" that emerged toward the turn of the century. The MBL often provided an environment that was conducive to revolutionizing the discipline, replacing its largely descriptive and speculative methods with lively analytical and experimental science.
520 8 $aCombining history and current science, each lecture focuses on a subfield of biology. The speakers represented include John Gurdon on developmental biology, Joshua Lederberg on genetics, Torsten Wiesel on neurobiology, and E. O. Wilson on animal behavior. Benjamin Kamminer provides an account of the work of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, capturing his iconoclastic, tenacious, sometimes outrageous nature, as well as his humor and insight.
520 8 $aAnd Gerald Weissmann compares Jacques Loeb and Gertrude Steinan unlikely pair bound by their common assent to mechanistic materialism. The history and scientific discovery in these pages should convey for any reader - whether biologist, historian, or interested layperson - the excitement of the renowned laboratory and the drama and frustration of biology in the twentieth century.
650 0 $aBiology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014203
650 0 $aBiology$zUnited States.
610 20 $aMarine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)$xHistory.
700 1 $aBarlow, Robert,$d1939-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92108546
710 2 $aMarine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82116618
852 00 $boff,bio$hQH311$i.B49 1993