A Hidden Legacy reveals previously unknown insights into the remarkable contributions Esther Zimmer Lederberg made to molecular biology and takes readers through her instrumental role in the discovery of bacterial genetics.
A Hidden Legacy reveals previously unknown insights into the remarkable contributions Esther Zimmer Lederberg made to molecular biology and takes readers through her instrumental role in the discovery of bacterial genetics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thomas E. Schindler is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Illinois-Chicago. After earning his PhD in microbiology and immunology, he conducted post-doctoral research at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He worked in research and development for Xytronyx, Inc., a biotechnology company, for eight years before pursuing a career as a high school chemistry teacher in Falls Village, Connecticut. Today, he is an accomplished science writer who has devoted several years to researching and writing about the neglected heroine of bacterial genetics, Esther Zimmer Lederberg.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Chapter 1: An Abiding Affection * Chapter 2: The Pathway to Bacterial Genetics * Chapter 3: Graduate School: Mentored by the Future Nobel Laureates, George Beadle and Edward Tatum * Chapter 4: The Anomaly of Bacterial Genetics * Chapter 5: Love in the Laboratory: A Marriage of Two Prodigies * Chapter 6: Strange Genetics: Bacterial Genes Move Sideways * Chapter 7: Clarifying the Unique Features of Bacterial Sex * Chapter 8: Replica Plating: Esther Repurposes Her Compact Makeup Sponge * Chapter 9: The Matilda Effect: Joshua Lederberg's Brilliance Obscured His Wife's Reputation * Chapter 10: What She Did for Love: Demoted from Research Collaborator to Nobel Wife * Chapter 11: Behind the Laboratory Doors: For Over One Hundred Years of Science, Women Participated in Obscurity * Chapter 12: Antibiotic Resistance, the Horrendous Consequences of Bacterial Sex * Chapter 13: The Lederbergs' Stanford Years, 1959-1976: Growing Apart, the Collaborative Couple Divorce * Chapter 14: The Central Importance of E. coli and ¿ Phage in the New Molecular Biology * Chapter 15: Making Music and a New Life * Epilogue: A New Tree of Life and a New Concept for the Gene * Acknowledgments * Index
* Introduction * Chapter 1: An Abiding Affection * Chapter 2: The Pathway to Bacterial Genetics * Chapter 3: Graduate School: Mentored by the Future Nobel Laureates, George Beadle and Edward Tatum * Chapter 4: The Anomaly of Bacterial Genetics * Chapter 5: Love in the Laboratory: A Marriage of Two Prodigies * Chapter 6: Strange Genetics: Bacterial Genes Move Sideways * Chapter 7: Clarifying the Unique Features of Bacterial Sex * Chapter 8: Replica Plating: Esther Repurposes Her Compact Makeup Sponge * Chapter 9: The Matilda Effect: Joshua Lederberg's Brilliance Obscured His Wife's Reputation * Chapter 10: What She Did for Love: Demoted from Research Collaborator to Nobel Wife * Chapter 11: Behind the Laboratory Doors: For Over One Hundred Years of Science, Women Participated in Obscurity * Chapter 12: Antibiotic Resistance, the Horrendous Consequences of Bacterial Sex * Chapter 13: The Lederbergs' Stanford Years, 1959-1976: Growing Apart, the Collaborative Couple Divorce * Chapter 14: The Central Importance of E. coli and ¿ Phage in the New Molecular Biology * Chapter 15: Making Music and a New Life * Epilogue: A New Tree of Life and a New Concept for the Gene * Acknowledgments * Index
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