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Ordinary geniuses: Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology
Ordinary geniuses: Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology
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Segrè, Gino
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English
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When Max and Geo first met
Max grows up
Geo grows up
Göttingen and Copenhagen
Particle or wave?
Max's and Geo's early careers
Copenhagen, 1931
Zurich, 1931
Max, Bohr, and biology
Max, Berlin, and biology
Geo escapes from Russia
The Russia Geo left behind
Geo comes to America
The sun's mysteries revealed
Max leaves Germany
Max in the New World
Fission.
Supernovae and neutron stars
Max meets Manny and Sal
Hitting the jackpot
What is life?
The phage grows up
Geo and the universe
Gamow's game
Bohr, Geo, and Max
Back to Germany
The new Manchester
Alpha, beta, gamma
Big Bang versus steady state
DNA
The double helix
Geo and DNA
Geo begins again
Max begins again
The molecular biology that was
The Phage Church Trinity goes to Stockholm
The triumph of the Big Bang
The cosmic microwave background radiation
Cosmology's new age
Einstein's biggest blunder
Duckling or swan?
After the Golden Age
The unavoidable and the unfashionable
Mr. Tompkins arrives
Geo's and Max's final messages.
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Molecular biologists
Physicists
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ISBN
9780670022762
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