Designs for Life: Molecular Biology After World War II

by Soraya de Chadarevian

Book Overview

Molecular biology has come to dominate our perceptions of life, health and disease. In the decades following World War II, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge was a world-renowned center of this emerging discipline. Crick and Watson, among others, did the work that made them famous in this laboratory. Soraya de Chadarevian's important new study is the first to examine the creation and expansion of molecular biology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521207746
• ISBN13: 9780521207744
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"