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Papers, 1949-1951.

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Correspondence, notes, typescripts, reprints. Correspondence (1949-1951) is primarily with Henry Quastler, radiobiologist, concerning genetics and information theory applied to biophysics. The related notes and data (n.d.), typescripts by Dancoff and by Dancoff with Murray Gell-Mann (1 each, n.d.), and reprints (1947-1951) pertain to evolution and mutation. Correspondents include: Salvador E. Luria, Alvin Novick, and Tracy M. Sonneborn.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Luria, S. E. (Salvador Edward), 1912-1991

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from S. E. Luria and his wife, Zella Luria. From the description of Letters, 1970-1977, n.d., to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871852 Salvador E. Luria was a bacteriologist whose work with Max Delbruck on bacteriophage demonstrated that bacteria resistant to certain phages arose through gene mutations. His later work showed that phages also mutate genetically. He received the Nobel Prize...

Novick, Alvin, 1925-

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Gell-Mann, Murray

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Born 1929. From the description of Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1982 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78732383 Biography Murray Gell-Mann was born on September 15, 1929, in New York City, the second son of Arthur Isidore Gell-Mann and Pauline, née Reichstein. The hyphenation of the family surname was introduced by Arthur from the traditional Gellmann used by his forebears in the place of his birth,...

Dancoff, Sidney Michael,

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Physicist (quantum mechanics). National Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 1941; on physics faculty at the University of Illinois from 1942. From the description of Papers, 1949-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79165602 ...

Quastler, Henry.

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Sonneborn, T. M. (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981

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Early geneticist whose early work with paramecium was critical to the discovery of genetic recombination. Sonneborn taught and conducted most of his important work at Indiana University, 1939-1981. In 1959 the National Academy of Science presented the Kimber Award for Genetics to Sonneborn. From the description of Sonneborn laboratory abstracts and papers, ca. 1931-1979. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 62198002 From the description of Sonneborn reprint collection, ...