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Judson, Horace Freeland:
The Eighth Day of Creation
The Makers of the Revolution in Biology (25th Anniversary Edition)
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€ 46,00
Einband: Paperback
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 12/1996
Seiten: 714
Abbildungen: illus., index, appendix, notes
ISBN-10: 0-87969-478-5
ISBN-13: 978-087969478-4
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Beschreibung
In this classic, originally published 25 years ago and now reprinted with a new Afterword by the author on how he came to write the book, Judson tells the story of the birth and early development of molecular biology, in the US, the UK and France. In particular, the fascinating account of the remarkable golden period from the revelation of the double helix structure of DNA through to cracking the genetic code and solving the basic problems of how genes are regulated, is told largely in the words of the main players in the unfolding drama, all of whom were interviewed extensively by Judson in preparing this acclaimed volume.
As well as the new Afterword that appears here for the first time, the current edition contains the material added by the author to the earlier "Expanded Edition" (CSHL Press 1996) on some of the principal figures involved, particularly Rosalind Franklin, together with the Afterword added at that time which sketches the further development of molecular biology into the era of recombinant DNA.
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Inhalt
Preface
Foreword to the Expanded Edition
Foreword to the First Edition
Part I: DNA - Function and Structure: The elucidation of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, the genetic material
Part II: RNA - The Functions of the Structure: The breaking of the genetic code, the discovery of the messenger
Part III: PROTEIN - Structure and Function: The solution of how protein molecules work.
Epilogue: On the transformation of molecular biology 1970-1995
Afterword: In Defense of Rosalind Franklin: The myth of the wronged heroine
Appendix: A Postcard from Mount Fourier
Zielgruppe/Leser
Reviews
review: "A historian has mused that the memory of man is too frail a thread on which to hang history; Judson's achievement, in drawing out the memories of so many participants in the epic of molecular biology and weaving them into a single robust skein, is magisterial. His work fittingly commemorates a golden age which already seems as remote as that of Darwin and Huxley."
—Nature
review: “This reissue of a pioneering history of molecular biology, for some years out of print, is essentially a reprint of the first edition of 1979. Horace Judson has corrected a few minor errors (remarkably few for such a fact-filled book), given a sharper emphasis to Frederick Sangers' work on protein sequencing to reflect his (Judson's) conviction of its central importance, and added some personal details to a biographical sketch of Rosalind Franklin. Finally, an epilogue touches very briefly on developments in the 1970s that were the foundations for the subsequent vast expansion of molecular biology…. This epilogue obviously is not meant to bring Judson's original story up to the present—that would take another large book—but only to point readers to topics that Judson leaves for other historians to explore.
The Eighth Day of Creation has aged well, like a good vintage, and its very good to have it available again.”
—ISIS
review: "The revelations of modern biology make a remarkable human and scientific story, and it has never been told better than in Horace Freeland Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation…. What is especially fortunate is that he is a graceful writer with a keen sense of the human as well as the scientific drama…. I finished the book with a great sense of elation and a deepened sense of admiration for what the human family, at its best, can accomplish." (Review of the First Edition)
—JEREMY BERNSTEIN, New York Times Book Review
review: "In his massive, marvelous history of molecular biology… Judson introduces us to many fiendishly clever experiments, some fiercely competitive rivalries, and some of the greatest scientific minds ever to ponder the mysteries of biology…. He has talked with nearly everyone involved, and The Eighth Day of Creation is a unique oral history of a scientific revolution; to my knowledge there has been nothing else like it." (Review of the First Edition)
—LEON GUSSOW, Chicago Tribune
Autoreninfo
Horace Freeland Judson is a historian of molecular biology and the author of several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and A Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.
The Eighth Day of Creation is a monumental work. Arising out of Judson's acquaintance with Max Perutz in 1968 came the idea of a book about the discovery of the structures of cellular macromolecules. Following a discussion with Jacques Monod in 1969, Judson expanded his planned book to a general history of molecular biology. The result is based on interviews of over 100 scientists, cross-checked and re-interviewed over a period of seven years. The book was serialized in three issues of the New Yorker in November and December, 1978. Following the publication of the book, Judson deposited the tapes and transcripts of the interviews at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Judson graduated from the University of Chicago and worked for seven years for Time Magazine as a European correspondent in London and Paris. He subsequently wrote for The New Yorker, Harper's, and Nature among others. Judson spent four years as a research scholar at Stanford University and then nine years on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He was the director of the now defunct Center for History of Recent Science and Research Professor of History at George Washington University. In 1987 Judson won a MacArthur Fellowship
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