Features & Benefits
- Examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance
- Focuses on the period between 1930 and the elucidation of DNA structure in the mid 1950s
- Analyzes the motivations and mechanisms empowering the vision of science and society
- Explores the role of private power centers in shaping scientific agenda
- Highlights the political dimensions of pure research
- Of interest to molecular biologists, historians, sociologists, and the general reader