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Author Bourgeois, Suzanne, 1931- author.

Title Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its founders / Suzanne Bourgeois
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 230 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Characters; Chronology; Prologue: The Greatest Generation; 1. Before and after Ann Arbor; 2. Doctor Polio Meets Doctor Atomic; 3. Enter Leo Szilard; 4. Atoms in Biology; 5. What Was It about La Jolla?; 6. The Pasteur Connection; 7. The Spirit of Paris; 8. Our Dear Kahn Building; 9. Pioneering; 10. The McCloy Boys; 11. Biology in Human Affairs; 12. A Napoleon from Byzantium; Epilogue: Fifty Years Later; Notes; Abbreviations; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q
Rs; t; u; v; w; x; y; z
Summary Bourgeois chronicles the creation and early history of the Salk Institute, a private biomedical sciences research institute in La Jolla, California. It covers about twenty years, from 1955, the year of the successful development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, to the mid-1970s. It recounts how, with the support of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (the March of Dimes) and a gift of land from the city of San Diego, Salk founded a pioneering institute of molecular biology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
SUBJECT Salk Institute for Biological Studies fast
Subject Biology -- Research -- California -- San Diego
Research institutes -- California -- San Diego
NATURE -- Reference.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
SCIENCE -- General.
Biology -- Research
Research institutes
California -- San Diego
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013010766
ISBN 9780520956599
0520956591