The biological century : Friday evening talks at the Marine Biological Laboratory / edited by Robert Barlow, Jr. [and others].

Woods Hole, Mass. : The Laboratory; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [1993], ©1993.

xii, 289 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index

The mechanistic conception of life : Loeb the teacher, Stein the student at the MBL / Gerald Weissmann -- Genetic maps : fruit flies, people, bacteria and molecules : a tribute to Morgan and Sturtevant / Joshua Lederberg -- Determinants of development : from Conklin and Lillie to the present / J.B. Gurdon -- Albert Azent-Györgyi : "To see what every one has seen and think what no one has thought" / Benjamin Kaminer -- Keith Porter and the fine architecture of living cells / Shinya Inoué -- Channels, pumps, and osmotic machines in plants : a tribute to Osterhout / Clifford L. Slayman -- Sodium and potassium channels and propagation of the nerve impulse : a tribute to Cole and Hodgkin / Clay M. Armstrong -- Establishing the molecular basis of vision : Hecht and Wald / Meredithe L. Applebury -- Neural mechanisms of visual perception : the legacy of Hartline and Kuffler / Torsten Wiesel

Analyzing the superorganism : the legacy of Whitman and Wheeler / Edward O. Wilson -- Ecology in Woods Hole : Baird, Bigelow, and Redfield / John E. Hobbie and John B. Pearce.