Sinsheimer Robert (11 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. pp. 163-170, Illus, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Square, tight binding. Clean but tanned pages. Wrappers have general shelf wear, soiling, tanning. Contents: Morison, Introduction. Graham, Concerns about Science and Attempts to Regulate Inquiry. Sinsheimer, The Presumptions of Science. Baltimore, Limiting Science: A Biologist's Perspective. White, Science and the Sense of Self: THe Medieval Background of a Modern Confrontation. Max, Reflections on the Neo-Romantic Critique of Science. Pice, Endless Frontier or Bureaucratic Morass? Metzger, Academic Freedom and Scientific Freedom. Box, Freedom and Risk. Swazey, Protecting the "Animal of Necessity": Limits to Inquiry in Clinical Investigation. Culliton, Science's Restive Public. Hutt, Public Criticism of Health Science Policy. Brooks, The Problem of Research Priorities. Nelkin, Threats and Promises: Negotiating the Control of Research. Morison, Misgivings about Life-Extending Technologies. Holton, Epilogue. Vol. 107, No. 2, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 9.75" tall; 240 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Condition: very good. Berkeley : University of California Press,1994. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xx,318 pp. Index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780520082489. Keywords : SCIENCE, molecular biology.

8vo. xix, 318 pp. Photos, glossary, bibliog., index. Boards, dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Norman Horowitz. Fine. First edition. Historical and philosophical insights into the development of molecular biology. Sinsheimer was involved in the discovery of circular DNA, and was a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Horowitz played a key role in the development of genetics in the twentieth century. ISBN: 0520082486.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ix, 219 Pp. Orange Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Spine Ends, Previous Owner's Blindstamp On First Front Free Endpaper. Dj Near Fine, Tiny Ink Spot At Top Of Front Panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. x, 542 p. illus. 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0262140217; 9780262140218 ; LCCN: 74-6415 ; OCLC: 874206 ; sky-blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: Harrison Brown : Preface - Jerzy Neyman : Nicholas Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik) : An intellectual revolutionary - 1. Astronomy and cosmology : Bart J. Bok : Harlow Shapley and the discovery of the center of our galaxy - Donald W. Goldsmith : Edwin Hubble and the Universe outside our galaxy - Wlodimie rz Zonn : Explosive events in the Universe - C. Burbidge and M. Burbidge : Modern riddles of cosmology - 2. Biology : Robert L. Sinsheimer : The molecular basis of life - R.C. Lewontin : Darwin and Mendel - The materialist revolution - E. Margoliash : Informational macromolecules and biological evolution - Seymour S. Cohen : On the origin of cells : The development of a Copernican revolution - Stanley L. Miller : The first laboratory synthesis of organic compounds under primitive earth conditions - David Hubel : Neurobiology : A science in need of a Copernicus - 3. Chemistry and physics : Glenn T. Seaborg : From Mendelev to Mendelevium and beyond - Rainer K. Sachs : Relativity - Victor F. Weisskopf : The impact of Quantum theory on moder n physics - J. Hughes : The Copernican legacy for meteorology - 4. Quasi-Copernican revolution in mathematics : Eugene Lukacs : Non-Euclidean geometry - S.M. Ulam : Infinities - J.M. Hammersley : The technology of thought - 5. Study of chance mechanisms, a quasi-Copernican revolution in science and in mathematics : Herbert Robbins : The statistical mode of thought - M. Kac : The emergence of statistical thought in exact sciences - W.G. Cochran : The vital role of randomization in experiments a nd surveys - 6. Technology : Guyford Sever : Man take wings - Donald W. Goldsmith : The Copernicus satellite in the new era of space astronomy - Robert L. Carman : Lasers - Evolution and technological use - Harrison Brown : Some quasi-Copernican rev olutions in man's utilization of energy ; "The introductory chapter describes the circumstances and the essence of the initial intellectual revolution due to Copernicus himself. The subsequent six parts present in turn: (1) several revolutions in astronomy-cosmology, all in the twentieth century and one of them still in progress; (2) a number of deep revolutionary changes in the biological sciences, one of them made twenty years ago by an inspired contribution of a graduate student; (3) several revolutionary changes in the physical sciences; (4) revolutions in the thinking of mathematicians; (5) the emergence of a "pluralistic" point of view in scientific research; and (6) revolutions in technology." ; spine and cover sunned (with a mark from a shelving brace thereby visible) ; VG. Book.

1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo. 318pp., index,

4to. 89-91 pp. Self-wraps. INSCRIBED BY SINSHEIMER. Fine. Sinsheimer worked with Max Delbruck on phage genetics at Caltech, where he later served as Chairman of the Division of Biology. WITH: SINSHEIMER. "First Steps Toward a Genetic Chemistry." Offprint from: Science, vol. 125, no. 3258, 1957. 4to. 1123-1128 pp. Figs. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. Fine.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Photographjs Throughout, (illustrator). First Edition. 60 Pp.Softcover. Text Of A Symposium. Sample Copy From The Caltech Archives, But No Marks At All Except A Stray Pen Line 1/2" Long On Front Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: New.