The world of molecular biology / Manuel F. Varela, Ann F. Varela and Michael F. Shaughnessy. -- New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2021]. – (58.17/S533)

Contents

Preface
Timeline of Molecular Biologists
Chapter 1    Discussing Molecular Biology and Biologists--Who Were They and What Did They Discover? Oswald Theodore Avery!
Chapter 2    From Wahoo, Nebraska to the Nobel Prize--George Beadle, His Work and Many Contributions to Molecular Biology
Chapter 3    Seymour Benzer: What Happens to People Who Read Atomic Physics in the Synagogue?
Chapter 4    Paul Berg and Recombinant DNA
Chapter 5    Sydney Brenner--From South Africa to Cambridge to the Nobel Prize
Chapter 6    Herbert Boyer: Who Was He, and What Did He Have to Do with Molecular Biology?
Chapter 7    Stanley Norman Cohen and His Contributions to Molecular Biology
Chapter 8    Erwin Chargaff--Precursor to Watson and Crick?
Chapter 9    Max Delbruck: Pioneer of Molecular Biology
Chapter 10   Joshua Lederberg: Bacteria Can Mate? Who Would Have Thought?
Chapter 11   Susan Lindquist and Prions, Yeast, and Heat Shock Proteins
Chapter 12   Salvador Luria and Viral Replication--Understanding it; Preventing it?
Chapter 13   Barbara McClintock and Jumping Genes
Chapter 14   Matthew Meselson: Born in Denver, Colorado--Impacted the World
Chapter 15   The Fly Room and Thomas Hunt Morgan: Who Was He, and What Did He Investigate?
Chapter 16   Hermann Joseph Muller--The Realm of Genetic Mutations
Chapter 17   Marshall Nirenberg--The Mystery of the Genetic Code Puzzle!
Chapter 18   Reiji Okazaki--DNA Replication
Chapter 19   Who Is Mark Ptashne: What Is Genetic Switching and Phage Lambda Concerns?
Chapter 20   Richard J. Roberts--From Derby England to Split Genes and the Nobel Prize
Chapter 21   Hamilton O. Smith--An American Microbiologist, Restriction Endonucleases, and the Nobel Prize
Chapter 22   Alfred H. Sturtevant and the First Gene Map of the Fruit Fly
Chapter 23   Edward Tatum, Metabolism-Controlling Genes, Mold Mutants, and the Nobel Prize
Chapter 24   Susumu Tonegawa--Somatic Cells, DNA Recombination, and Antibody Diversity
Chapter 25   Craig Venter and the Human Genome Project
References
About the Authors
Index