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Olby, Robert (3)

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Olby, Robert C. (Robert Cecil) (4)

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Robert Cecil Olby is an historian of science. A graduate of the University College London and Oxford, Robert C. Olby (b. 1933) earned a reputation as an innovative historian of genetics with the publication of first book The Origins of Mendelism in 1966. When a former undergraduate friend of his, John Preble, suggested that he study the history of molecular biology, Olby gained an introduction to Francis Crick, the British biophysicist and co-discoverer of t...

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