Illuminating Life: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor (1903-1969)

Commentary by Jan Witkowski

ISBN 10: 0879695668 / ISBN 13: 9780879695668

Published by Cold Spring Harbor, 1999

About this Item

Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear; tearing to d.j. at bottom corners and heel of spine. Else clean copy.

Seller Inventory # 1799693

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Illuminating Life: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor (1903-1969)
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879695668
• ISBN 13: 9780879695668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Used-Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science

About this title

Synopsis

The Laboratory that bears the Cold Spring Harbor name is famous for its research, its role in science education, and the science that won three recent Nobel prizes. This book, an intellectual history of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, can be enjoyed by anyone interested in the development of contemporary science, regardless of technical background. It is assembled on the foundation of twenty research papers published between 1903 and 1969. Now hard to track down, they are reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by a series of essays by Jan Witkowski describing the investigations that were done, who did them, and why they were important. This handsome volume will appeal to students, established scientists, and others intrigued not only by the history of research at Cold Spring Harbor but also by an extraordinary period in the flowering of American science.

About the Author

Jan Witkowski, PH.D. trained in biochemistry at the University of London and did research on the cell biology and biochemistry of Duchenne muscular dystrophy before going molecular, studying oncogenes and directing a DNA-based diagnostics laboratory. Since 1987, he has been the Director of the Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. His varied interests include the history of biology, on which he has written extensively. He is the author, with James Watson, Michael Gilman, and Mark Zoller, of the textbook Recombinant DNA.