A collection of offprints of historic experimental papers in 20th century biological sciences: biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, molecular biology. More than half of the items included are from winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, or Chemistry and other prominent scientists are included. Approximately 125 items.
Highlights include: Seymour Benzer's revolutionary genetic mapping paper, “Fine Structure of a Genetic Region in Bacteriophage” (1955)'; Albert Claude, “Fractionation of Mammalian Liver Cells by Differential Centrifugation,” (1949);' Max Delbrück's seminal talk, “A Physicist Looks at Biology,” (1949); Alexander L. Dounce, “Duplicating Mechanism for Peptide Chain and Nucleic Acid Synthesis,”..... More