The American Phage Group: Founders of Molecular Biology

A fascinating historical account of the American Phage Group and how its new research framework became the foundation for molecular biology

This book is the first critical and analytical study of the American Phage Group—a small group of scientists who gathered around Max Delbrück, Salvador Luria, and Alfred Hershey between 1940 and 1960—and how this novel research program became the foundation of the field of molecular biology. These three young, charismatic, and iconoclastic scientists w...