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1 online resource (xxxiv, 230 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies. |
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies. |
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Biology -- Research -- California -- San Diego.
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Biology -- Research. |
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California -- San Diego. |
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Research institutes -- California -- San Diego.
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Research institutes. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bourgeois, Suzanne. Genesis of the Salk Institute : The Epic of Its Founders. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520276079 |
| ISBN |
9780520956599 (electronic book) |
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0520956591 (electronic book) |
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9780520276079 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520276078 |
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