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... Finally, in 1937 the Rockefeller Foundation offered him an unsoliciteu Fellowship (Biology) to travel abroad, so he took this opportunity to visit the California Institute of Technology in order to learn Drosophila genetics from Thomas Hunt Morgan and his worlu-famous group.
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... So Max was left alone, and alone was responsible for giving continuity to phage research by founding and guiding an expanding, if loosely knit, lineage of phage workers that sowed the seeds that finally blossomed into modern molecular biology (see 5~. One of Max's first contributions, in his early days with Ellis, was to bring his analytical approach and mathematical knowledge to bear on study of the Shade life cycle.


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