Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders 9780520956599

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
The Characters
Chronology
Prologue: The Greatest Generation
1. Before and after Ann Arbor
2. Doctor Polio Meets Doctor Atomic
3. Enter Leo Szilard
4. Atoms in Biology
5. What Was It about La Jolla?
6. The Pasteur Connection
7. The Spirit of Paris
8. Our Dear Kahn Building
9. Pioneering
10. The McCloy Boys
11. Biology in Human Affairs
12. A Napoleon from Byzantium
Epilogue: Fifty Years Later
Notes
Abbreviations
References
Index

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