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... On the advice of the Rockefeller Foundation he accepted a lowly academic position of Instructor of Physics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained from 1940 until 1947, being finally promoted to Associate Professor. However, the Foundation, with generous foresight, agreed with the university to pay half his salary on the condition that half his time was free for biological research.
From page 82...
... and T2 in the summer of 1941 at CoIc3 Spring Harbor where Max was to react a paper at the annual symposium. In August that year Max married Mary (Manny)
From page 83...
... at the time. Thus, it signaled the birth of bacterial genetics which became a basic tool for exploring the molecular basis of life.


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