Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology

This hugely influential book, published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbrück, is now republished as The Centennial Edition. On first publication, the book was hailed as "[introducing] into the literature of science, for the first time, a self conscious historical element in which the participants in scientific discovery engage in writing their own chronicle. As such, it is an important document in the history of biology..."--Journal of History of Biology. In another review it was described as "required reading for every student of experimental biology...[who] will sense the smell and rattle of the laboratory"--Bioscience. The book was a formative influence on many of today s leading scientists.