2007, ISBN: 9789241209168

New York: Academic Press, 1947-1965. First editions (first and second printings). SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13… Mehr…

New York: Academic Press, 1947-1965. First editions (first and second printings). SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13 volumes 9 1/4 inchs tall, original green cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, library labels removed from spines, bookplate of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on front paste-down of some volumes, library handstamp to top edge of some volumes, handstamp of Library of Congress to front free endpapers (canceled), library pocket and handstamps to rear paste-down, text pages clean and unmarked. Overall good+. PREFACE to Volume 1: As material for their research geneticists use higher and lower plants, higher and lower animals, and recently also viruses and bacteriophages. They study heredity in man. In their experiments they may use biophysical methods, they may investigate the chemical synthesis of organic compounds, they may study the components of living cells. A considerable part of genetic research deals with practical problems related to the breeding of plants and animals. As a consequence of these several aspects of research in genetics, the results of such research are published in a wide variety of journals, and summary reviews are scattered among a considerable number of review periodicals. This series of review articles. Advances in Genetics, has been started in order that critical summaries of outstanding genetic problems, written by competent geneticists, may appear in a single publication. The articles are expected to deal with both theoretical and practical problems, and to cover plant breeding, animal breeding, and human heredity, as well as the related fields of biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, and immunology. The aim is to have the articles written in such form that they will be useful as reference material for geneticists and also as a source of information to nongeneticists. M. Demerec. Cold Spring Harbor, New York. MILISLAV DEMEREC (1895 1966) was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey. He became a prominent Drosophila researcher and established the Drosophila Information Service newsletter in 1934 with Calvin Bridges. In the 1940s the direction of Demerec's research changed to the genetics of bacteria and their viruses after a symposium given by Max Delbrück. In 1946 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1947 became the founding editor of Advances in Genetics, the first journal to review the finding of modern genetics. ERNEST BROWN BABCOCK (1877 1954) was an United States plant geneticist who pioneered the understanding of plant evolution in terms of genetics. He is particularly known for seeking to understand by field investigations and extensive experiments, the entire polyploid apomictic genus Crepis, in which he recognize 196 species. In his career he published more than 100 articles and books explaining plant genetics, including the seminal textbook (with Roy Elwood Clausen) Genetics in relation to agriculture. JAY LAURENCE LUSH (1896 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979. Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information. Lush authored a classic book 'Animal Breeding Plans' in 1937 which greatly influenced animal breeding around the world. From 1930 to 1966, Lush was the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967. TRACY MORTON SONNEBORN (1905 1981) was an American biologist. His life's study was of the Paramecium. In the late 1950s he conducted an elegant series of experiments in his endeavors to discover what it is that mediates the synchronized movement of the paramecium's cilia. Sonneborn surgically removed a small section of cell wall and replaced it rotated by 180 degrees. The cilia in the replaced section continued to 'wave' in the same direction as they had before surgery, i.e. now in antiphase to the others. What was remarkable is that both daughters of paramecia on which this operation had been performed also showed the same trait of a reverse phase wave in a similar area of their cell wall, as did, to a lesser extent, the granddaughter cells. This clear evidence for non-Mendelian inheritance was largely overlooked by the scientific community. ERNST WOLFGANG CASPARI (1909 - 1988) was a German-American zoologist and geneticist. Caspari was the first researcher to use methods of developmental biology to analyze the action of a gene. By transplanting larval tissue between the wild type and a red-eyed mutant of the moth, Ephestia, he demonstrated that wild-type larvae produce a diffusible "substance" that is lacking in the mutant and is necessary for the development of eye pigmentation. Further characterization of the substance and an approach to isolate it were interrupted by the Nazi government: he escaped to Turkey and later to the United States but did not get a chance to further contribute to the rapid development in the field, which led to the "one-gene-one-enzyme" hypothesis. Caspari's results, published in 1933, represent the first step toward this hypothesis of gene action. ERNST WALTER MAYR (1904 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. ERNEST R. SEARS (1910-1991) was a geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia, working on the origin, evolution, and cytogenetics of wheat for 55 years. Over the years Sears became one of the most respected names in wheat cytogenetics in the world. Probably his most important early achievement was to develop, over a 15-year period, a complete series of aneuploids--nullisomics, monosomics, trisomics and tetrasomics--for all 21 chromosomes of wheat. DAVID GUTHRIE CATCHESIDE (1907-1994) was one of the seminal figures in the post-war development of genetics, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. As a teacher and postgraduate supervisor he played a large part in launching the next generation of geneticists in both hemispheres. The implications of this integrationist view for university teaching were set out in a letter that he had published in Nature in 1963. NORMAN HAROLD HOROWITZ (1915 2005) was a geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars. His experiments were carried out by the Viking Lander of 1976, the first U.S. mission to successfully land an unmanned probe on the surface of Mars. As a scientist, Horowitz is best known for his discovery and demonstration in 1944 that a metabolic pathway is a series of steps, each catalyzed by a single enzyme. His discovery helped to clinch the case for George Beadle and Edward Tatum's "one gene-one enzyme hypothesis" (a term Horowitz coined for their concept). Another important contribution of Horowitz was his 1945 proposal on the "backward evolution" of biosynthetic pathways. This proposal provided a framework for understanding the evolution of biosynthetic pathways and presaged the study of molecular evolution. EDWARD BUTTS LEWIS (1918 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His Nobel Prizewinning studies with Drosophila, (including the discovery of the Drosophila Bithorax complex of homeotic genes, and elucidation of its function), founded the field of evolutionary developmental biology and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conserved strategies controlling animal development. He is credited with development of the complementation test. His key publications in the fields of genetics, developmental biology, radiation and cancer are presented in the book Genes, Development and Cancer, which was released in 2004. ALAN ROBERT GEORGE OWEN (19192003) was a university lecturer in genetics (Cambridge, 1950-70) and mathematics (Fellow, Trinity College, 1962-70), but resigned those positions to emigrate to Canada in 1970. He wrote about 40 scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, statistics, genetics, and population theory, that were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Heredity, Biometrics, Biometrika, Sanhkya, and Nature. In 1969 the Owens were invited to immigrate to Canada where Dr. Owen was to direct the parapsychology research of the Toronto-based New Horizons Research Foundation, a non-profit organization incorporated "to promote research on the frontiers of science and disseminate information." SALOME GLUECKSOHN-WAELSCH (1907 2007) was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics studied chemistry and zoology in Königsberg and Berlin before she joined Spemann's laboratory at the University of Freiburg in 1928. In 1932 she received her doctorate for her work on the embryological limb development of aquatic salamanders. She went on to become a lecturer at Columbia University in 1936, bringing embryological acumen to Leslie C. Dunn's genetics laboratory, where she remained for 17 years. She left Columbia University in 1953 to commence a professorship in anatomy at the newly founded Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she held the chair of molecular genetics from 1963 to 1976. As Gluecksohn-Waelsch combined the embryological expertise she had acquired at Spemann´s lab with methods of classical mouse genetics, she is considered the founder of mammalian developmental genetics. ERNST HADORN (1902-1976) was a Swiss geneticist. In 1937, Hadorn applied for a Rockefeller fellowship and spent a year at Rochester University where he met Curt Stern and Drosophila Two years later, he accepted a position as Professor of Zoology at the University of Zurich, where he remained until he retired in 1972. He was a pioneer of developmental genetics who recognized the analytical power of genetic mosaics. In 1972, Hadorn organized an international conference at Boldern, a rural site just South of Zurich. Hadorn had a dream: he wanted to build a bridge and bring together developmental genetics and molecular biology. To this end, he selected and invited an illustrious group of some 15 molecular biologists plus an equal number of "Drosophilists" from all over the world, truly "the best and the brightest". And the names read like a list from the Hall of Fame: François Jacob, Gerald Edelman, Manfred Eigen, Francis Crick, Charles Weissmann, Max Birnstiel, Sol Spiegelman, Sydney Brenner, Boris Ephrussi, Peter Lawrence, Antonio Garcia-Bellido, Klaus Sander, John Gurdon, Conrad Waddington, Jean Brachet, Tuneo Yamada, and many others. MICHAEL JAMES DENHAM WHITE (1910 1983) was a zoologist and cytologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961, and won the Linnaean Medal of the Linnaean Society of London in 1983. White made important contributions to the development of cytology and cytogenetics. His work was influential in the study of speciation in biology. WILLIAM FRANKLIN BLAIR (19121985) developed an international reputation in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology and conducted major research projects on subjects such as the genus Bufo and its parallels in the faunas of desert regions in North and South America. EDMUND BRISCO FORD (1901 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954. ALFRED DAY HEERSHEY (1908 1997) was an American Nobel Prizewinning bacteriologist and geneticist. He began performing experiments with bacteriophages with Italian-American Salvador Luria and German Max Delbrück in 1940, and observed that when two different strains of bacteriophage have infected the same bacteria, the two viruses may exchange genetic information. He moved with his assistant Martha to Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1950 to join the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics, where he performed the famous Hershey-Chase experiment with Martha Chase in 1952. This experiment provided additional evidence that DNA, not protein, was the genetic material of life. He became director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, shared with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück for their discovery on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure. HIRAM BENTLEY GLASS (1906 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist. His first major academic appointment was at Johns Hopkins University, at which time he was also a regular columnist for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. Like his doctoral mentor H. J. Muller, Bentley Glass was deeply concerned about eugenics. In response to the destructive racist views of Charles Davenport and others, Glass wrote "Geneticists Embattled: Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America During the 1920s and 1930s". PHILIP LEVINE (1900 1987) was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion. About 1925 Levine became assistant to Karl Landsteiner at the Rockefeller Institute, New York. In 1935, he worked as a bacteriologist and serologist at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, New Jersey where, in 1939, Levine and Rufus E. Stetson published their findings about a family who had a stillborn baby in 1937 who had died of hemolytic disease of the newborn. This publication included the first suggestion that a mother could make blood group antibodies owing to immune sensitization to her fetus's red blood cells. ALAN ROBERTSON (1920 1989) was an English population geneticist. Originally a chemist, he was recruited after the Second World War to work on animal genetics on behalf of the British government, and continued in this sphere until his retirement in 1985. He was a major influence in the widespread adoption of artificial insemination of cattle. In addition to his work on agricultural genetics, Robertson under, Academic Press, 1947-1965, 0, Albany, New York, U.S.A.: World Health Organization. New. 2003. Paperback. 924120916X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 150 pages. 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