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Lavoisier and the chemistry of life : an exploration of scientific creativity
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ISBN: 0299099806 Year: 1985 Volume: 4 Publisher: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press,

Hans Krebs.
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ISBN: 0195076575 0195070720 Year: 1993 Publisher: New-York Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Meselson, Stahl, and the replication of DNA : a history of "the most beautiful experiment in biology"
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ISBN: 1281730459 9786611730451 0300129661 9780300129663 9781281730459 9780300085402 0300085400 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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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 its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson and Stahl's quest.This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research--its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, as well as its frustrations, unexpected diversions away from original plans, and chronic uncertainty. Holmes uses research logs, experimental films, correspondence, and interviews with the participants to record the history of Meselson and Stahl's research, from their first thinking about the problem through the publication of their dramatic results. Holmes also reviews the scientific community's reception of the experiment, the experiment's influence on later investigations, and the reasons for its reputation as an exceptionally beautiful experiment.


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Eighteenth-century chemistry as an investigative enterprise
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Year: 1989 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California,

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Lavoisier and the chemistry of life : an exploration of scientific creativity.
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ISBN: 0299099849 Year: 1987 Publisher: Madison (Wis.) : University of Wisconsin press,

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Investigative pathways : patterns and stages in the careers of experimental scientists
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ISBN: 0300100752 Year: 2004 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,

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Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year
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ISBN: 9781400864652 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Instruments and experimentation in the history of chemistry
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ISBN: 0262082829 Year: 2000 Volume: *1 Publisher: Cambridge, MA London MIT Press

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Reconceiving the gene : Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics
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ISBN: 1281730475 9786611730475 030012970X 9780300129700 0300110782 9780300110784 9781281730473 6611730478 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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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 of the gene was recast in molecular terms. More often than any other individual, he is considered to have led geneticists from the classical gene into the molecular age. Drawing on Benzer's remarkably complete record of his experiments, his correspondence, and published sources, this book reconstructs how the former physicist initiated his work in phage biology and achieved his landmark investigation. The account of Benzer's creativity as a researcher is a fascinating story that also reveals intriguing aspects common to the scientific enterprise.

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