Biographical Memoirs Volume 62 (1993) / Chapter Skim
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Thus, the gospel spread and its proselytes increased in number to discover that they hacI become members of an integrated, friendly and hospitable international family related by social as well as by intellectual boncis, with Max as their father figure. DNA as Genetic Material Max's early work on the one-step growth curve had shown that, following phage infection of bacterial cells, a latent period of about 20 minutes elapses before the cells begin to burst and liberate a huncire(1 or more progeny particles.
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In an acIdress entitled "A physicist looks at biology," delivered at the thousandth meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949, he says. It may turn out that certain features of the living cell, including perhaps even replication, stand in a mutually exclusive relationship to the strict application of quantum mechanics, and that a new conceptual language has to be developed to embrace this situation.
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Why, then, clid the Phage Group seemingly ignore this obvious clue to the chemical nature of the gene until a member of the group itself came to the same conclusion by a less rigorous experiment? In fact, both Max and Salvador Luria were very interested in Avery's work a considerable time before its publication, visited him at the Rockefeller Institute, and admired him as a person.
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As soon as the model structure had been built ant! seemed right, James Watson revealed it first in a letter to Max (19)
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