Genesis of the Salk Institute The Epic of Its Founders [Hardcover]

This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Bourgeois crafts an engaging study that draws on her involvement with the Institute and on related archives, interviews, and informal conversations.

The volume discusses the people who founded the Institute and built a home for renowned researchleading scientists of the time as well as non-scientists of stature in finance, politics, philanthropy, publishing, and the humanities. The events that brought people together, the historic backdrop in which they worked, their personalities, their courage and their visions, their clash of egos and their personal vanities are woven together in a rich, engaging narrative about the founding of a world-premier research institution.

Suzanne Bourgeois is Professor Emerita and Founding Director of the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute. She has published widely on gene regulation in numerous scientific journals.

Foreword by Roger Guillemin
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

Jonas Salk's passion to create a palace of scientific splendor was as strong as his passion to cure polio. InGenesis of the Salk Institute, Suzanne Bourgeois reveals the inside scoop on how Salk achieved the impossibleby enticing famous scientists (Crick, Monod, Dulbecco) and orchestrating amenage a troisinvolving a renowned architect (Louis Kahn), the city of San Diego (ls+