Uncommon Farmer: George Beadle and the Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

by Paul Berg, Maxine Singer

Overview

George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobel Prize-winning discovery with Edward Tatum that the role of genes is to specify proteins. From 1946 to 1960 he led the Caltech Biology Division, rebuilding it to a powerhouse in molecular biology, and afterwards became a successful President of the University of Chicago. This is the first biography of a giant of genetics, written by two of the field's most distinguished contributors, Paul Berg and Maxine Singer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879696887
Publisher:	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication date:	09/28/2003
Series:	New England Monographs in Geography
Pages:	383
Product dimensions:	9.32(w) x 6.12(h) x 1.01(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	1
1.	An Uncommon Farmer	7
2.	Agricultural College at Lincoln	17
3.	Genetics at the Quarter Century	29
4.	The Corn Cooperation	43
5.	The Fly Group	61
6.	From Corn to Flies	79
7.	Three-Eyed Flies	95
8.	Becoming a Professor	115
9.	From Flies to Molds	131
10.	One Gene-One Protein	153
11.	Confronting the Skeptics	171
12.	In Morgan's Footsteps	187
13.	Postwar Science and Politics	205
14.	Genetics and the Nuclear Age	223
15.	Oxford and the Nobel Prize	241
16.	Becoming a University President	255
17.	Restoring the University's Eminence	271
18.	The Corn Wars	289
19.	Epilogue	307
	Notes	317
	Index	363