Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its founders /

Bourgeois, Suzanne, 1931-

Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its founders / Suzanne Bourgeois. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xxxiv, 230 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q. Rs; t; u; v; w; x; y; z.

Bourgeois chronicles the creation and early history of the Salk Institute, a private biomedical sciences research institute in La Jolla, California. It covers about twenty years, from 1955, the year of the successful development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, to the mid-1970s. It recounts how, with the support of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (the March of Dimes) and a gift of land from the city of San Diego, Salk founded a pioneering institute of molecular biology.



9780520956599




Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies.


Biology--Research--California--San Diego.
Research institutes--California--San Diego.


Electronic Books.

QH322 / .G464 2013