Biographical Memoirs Volume 62 (1993) / Chapter Skim
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As James Watson, the present Director of the Laboratory, who became a PhD student of Luria in 1947, has reflected, "My approach to science as well as to people became inclelibly fixed the following summer ( 1948) when we all came together at Cold Spring Harbor the Delbrucks, the I~urias, Gunther Stent, Seymour Benzer and I- in an atmosphere that ~ can never remember as less than perfect.
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If CoIc! Spring Harbor had become the Phage Mecca, visited by the converted for their intellectual refreshment, Max's laboratory at Caltech "now became the Phage Group's Vatican, where most of the disciples of what was later to be called the 'informational school' of molecular biology took their orders" (6~.
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In 1949 the Delbrucks did not go to Cold Spring Harbor since Manny was expecting a child, so many of the Phage Group, including James Watson, came to Pasadena where "several times each week, there occurred seminars dominated by Delbruck's insistence that the results logically fit into some form of pretty hypothesis" (2, p.
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