- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Translation
- Introduction: A Scientist in His Life's Project
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1 “I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived” -
2 “Stylistically, I'm Best at Irony” -
3 “I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn't Be Used” -
4 “I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist” -
5 “When I Look at Other Scientists … None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have” -
6 “Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor” -
7 “To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths of My Own Soul” -
8 “I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed” -
9 “Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of a Woman” -
10 “The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People” -
11 “I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology” -
12 “Antibody This, Antibody That, They Weren't Really Much Interested” -
13 “These People Don't Know What They're Doing” -
14 “I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something” - The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession
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15 “My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself” -
16 “This Theory Hadn't Made Much of a Stir, So Now, What Was I to Do?” -
17 “I'd Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology” -
18 “Finally, My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies” -
19 “Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake” -
20 “I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better” -
21 “Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject” - Epilogue: “What Struggle to Escape”
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Unpublished Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
“I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something”
“I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something”
- Chapter:
- (p.156) 14 “I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something”
- Source:
- Science as Autobiography
- Author(s):
Thomas Söderqvist
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter describes the arrival of a new research fellow in the Standardization Department from the new world. Twenty-two-year-old Karl Gordon Lark had just completed his Ph.D. with one of America's leading immunologists, Alwin Pappenheimer, at New York University. A couple of years earlier, Lark had attended the bacteriophage course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and had met Ole Maaloe, who had told him that Copenhagen was a nice place to in which to spend a couple of years if one had a Rockefeller fellowship in one's pocket. Lark arrived at an auspicious time. Maaloe had left his studies of bacteriophage in favor of the host cell and, inspired by recently published studies of phases in the division of eukaryotic cells, had decided to explore the synthesis of DNA during the division of bacterial cells, something that required access to a bacterial colony in which all the cells divided synchronously.
Keywords: research fellow, Standardization Department, immunologists, Karl Gordon Lark, Alwin Pappenheimer, Ole Maaloe, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Copenhagen
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Translation
- Introduction: A Scientist in His Life's Project
-
1 “I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived” -
2 “Stylistically, I'm Best at Irony” -
3 “I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn't Be Used” -
4 “I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist” -
5 “When I Look at Other Scientists … None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have” -
6 “Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor” -
7 “To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths of My Own Soul” -
8 “I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed” -
9 “Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of a Woman” -
10 “The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People” -
11 “I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology” -
12 “Antibody This, Antibody That, They Weren't Really Much Interested” -
13 “These People Don't Know What They're Doing” -
14 “I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something” - The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession
-
15 “My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself” -
16 “This Theory Hadn't Made Much of a Stir, So Now, What Was I to Do?” -
17 “I'd Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology” -
18 “Finally, My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies” -
19 “Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake” -
20 “I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better” -
21 “Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject” - Epilogue: “What Struggle to Escape”
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Unpublished Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
