Gunther Stent
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American molecular biologist and philosopher and historian of biology
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Gunther Stent's Degrees
- PhD Biochemistry University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gunther S. Stent was Graduate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the early bacteriophage biologists, he was known also for his studies on the metabolism of bacteria and neurobiology of leeches, and for his writing on the history and philosophy of biology.
Gunther Stent's Published Works
Published Works
- A physiological mechanism for Hebb's postulate of learning. (1973) (662)
- Neurobiology of the Leech (1981) (421)
- A genetic locus for the regulation of ribonucleic acid synthesis. (1961) (413)
- The Operon: On Its Third Anniversary (1964) (347)
- Cell lineage analysis by intracellular injection of a tracer enzyme. (1978) (251)
- Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses (1963) (234)
- Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (2000) (205)
- Neuronal generation of the leech swimming movement. (1978) (191)
- Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery. (1972) (180)
- Strength and weakness of the genetic approach to the development of the nervous system. (1981) (179)
- INACTIVATION OF BACTERIOPHAGES BY DECAY OF INCORPORATED RADIOACTIVE PHOSPHORUS (1955) (174)
- That was the molecular biology that was. (1968) (164)
- Embryonic origins of cells in the leech Helobdella triserialis. (1984) (163)
- Direction of chain growth in enzymic RNA synthesis. (1965) (159)
- Neural circuits for generating rhythmic movements. (1978) (154)
- RNA chain growth rates in Escherichia coli. (1969) (142)
- Embryonic cell lineages in the nervous system of the glossiphoniid leech Helobdella triserialis. (1980) (138)
- Mating in the reproduction of bacterial viruses. (1958) (136)
- Embryonic development of the hirudinid leech Hirudo medicinalis: structure, development and segmentation of the germinal plate. (1982) (134)
- Does God Play Dice (1979) (134)
- Neuronal control of swimming in the medicinal leech (1974) (134)
- Prematurity and Uniqueness in Scientific Discovery (1972) (122)
- An oscillatory neuronal circuit generating a locomotory rhythm. (1976) (111)
- Limits to the scientific understanding of man. (1975) (98)
- Neuronal control of swimming in the medicinal leech (1974) (96)
- The role of cell lineage in development. (1985) (95)
- Molecular Genetics: An Introductory Narrative (1971) (90)
- Developmental arborization of sensory neurons in the leech Haementeria ghilianii. II. Experimentally induced variations in the branching pattern (1985) (78)
- The chromosomal site of the RNA control (RC) locus in Escherichia coli. (1962) (77)
- Cell lineage in the development of the leech nervous system (1981) (74)
- Peptide chain growth of -galactosidase in Escherichia coli. (1968) (71)
- Neuronal control of heartbeat in the medicinal leech (2004) (70)
- Development of the leech nervous system. (1992) (69)
- Embryonic development of the glossiphoniid leech Theromyzon rude: structure and development of the germinal bands. (1980) (67)
- Synthesis of a specific messenger RNA during amino acid starvation of Escherichia coli. (1968) (61)
- Effects of radiophosphorus decay on some synthetic capacities of bacteria. (1958) (58)
- Physiologically induced changes in the property of phenylalanine tRNA in Escherichia coli. (1968) (57)
- DECAY OF INCORPORATED RADIOACTIVE PHOSPHORUS DURING REPRODUCTION OF BACTERIOPHAGE T2 (1955) (56)
- On the two step nature of bacteriophage absorption. (1952) (51)
- Neuronal control of heartbeat in the medicinal leech (2004) (50)
- Delayed Recognition in Scientific Discovery: Citation Frequency Analysis Aids the Search for Case Histories (1998) (50)
- Neural control of heartbeat in the leech and in some other invertebrates. (1979) (49)
- Generation of a locomotory rhythm by a neural network with recurrent cyclic inhibition (1977) (48)
- Intracellular condition of Escherichia coli transfer RNA. (1966) (48)
- Genetic and physiological effects of the decay of incorporated radioactive phosphorus in bacterial viruses and bacteria. (1960) (45)
- Cell lineage in the development of invertebrate nervous systems. (1985) (45)
- Axon outgrowth along segmental nerves in the leech. I. Identification of candidate guidance cells. (1989) (43)
- Developmental origin of segmental identity in the leech mesoderm. (1993) (42)
- Neuronal control of swimming in the medicinal leech (1974) (42)
- Almost There. (Book Reviews: The Coming of the Golden Age. A View of the End of Progress) (1969) (40)
- An unusual condition of leucine transfer RNA appearing during leucine starvation of Escherichia coli. (1969) (37)
- The DNA story: A documentary history of gene cloning (1982) (36)
- Developmental arborization of sensory neurons in the leech Haementeria ghilianii. I. Origin of natural variations in the branching pattern (1985) (36)
- The paradoxes of progress (2001) (35)
- Cross Reactivation of Genetic Loci of T2 Bacteriophage after Decay of Incorporated Radioactive Phosphorus. (1953) (32)
- Radioactive phosphorus tracer studies on the reproduction of T4 bacteriophage. II. Kinetics of phosphorus assimilation. (1953) (31)
- Thinking in one dimension: The impact of molecular biology on development (1985) (31)
- An extreme example of the coding problem, Avian PPLO 5969☆ (1959) (31)
- Decay of incorporated radioactive phosphorus during development of a temperate bacteriophage. (1956) (30)
- Axon outgrowth along segmental nerves in the leech. II. Identification of actual guidance cells. (1989) (30)
- Mind from matter?: An essay on evolutionary epistemology (1986) (30)
- Photosensory input pathways in the medicinal leech (2004) (30)
- Movement of ribosomes over messenger RNA in polysomes of rel + and rel - Escherichia coli strains. (1973) (30)
- Peripheral Feedback in the Leech Swimming Rhythm (1976) (29)
- Neuronal control of heartbeat in the medicinal leech (2004) (29)
- MUTATIONAL HETEROZYGOTES IN BACTERIOPHAGES. (1959) (29)
- Stabilization to 32P decay and onset of DNA replication of T4 bacteriophage. (1961) (26)
- The relative radiosensitivity of bacteriophages S13 and T2. (1957) (26)
- Genetic transcription (1966) (26)
- Bacteriophage growth in protoplasts of Bacillus megaterium. (1955) (25)
- Development of neurotransmitter metabolism in embryos of the leech Haementeria ghilianii (1987) (25)
- Dispersal of the parental nucleic acid of bacteriophage T4 among its progeny (1959) (25)
- Studies on activation of T4 bacteriophage by cofactor. I. The degree of activity. (1950) (25)
- THE EFFECT OF RADIOPHOSPHORUS DECAY ON CISTRON FUNCTION IN BACTERIOPHAGE T4. I. LONG-RANGE AND SHORT-RANGE HITS. (1964) (25)
- The Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change Group Report (1982) (25)
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF PARENTAL PHOSPHORUS ATOMS AMONG BACTERIOPHAGE PROGENY. (1955) (24)
- Morality as a biological phenomenon : the presuppositions of sociobiological research (1980) (24)
- The genetic approach to developmental neurobiology (1980) (22)
- Three star mutants of coliphage T2. (1958) (22)
- Studies on activation of T4 bacteriophage by cofactor. II. The mechanism of activation. (1950) (22)
- Differential aminoacylation of three species of isoleucine transfer RNA from Escherichia coli. (1969) (21)
- Nucleoside triphosphate pools and the regulation of RNA synthesis in E. coli. (1969) (21)
- Anticoagulant and Fibrinolytic Properties of Salivary Proteins from the Leech Haementeria ghilianii 1 (1981) (21)
- Developmental cell lineage. (1998) (20)
- Appearance and localization of acetylcholinesterase in embryos of the leech Helobdella triserialis (1981) (19)
- Protein synthesis and the onset of intracellular bacteriophage growth: I. Stabilization of the infecting phage to 32P decay† (1960) (18)
- On the state of the parental phosphorus during reproduction of bacteriophage T2. (1954) (17)
- Studies on activation of T4 bacteriophage by cofactor. IV. Nascent activity. (1952) (16)
- THE OPERON: ON ITS THIRD ANNIVERSARY. MODULATION OF TRANSFER RNA SPECIES CAN PROVIDE A WORKABLE MODEL OF AN OPERATOR-LESS OPERON. (1964) (16)
- ON "NATURAL" DNA-RNA COMPLEXES IN PHAGE-INFECTED E. COLI. (1964) (16)
- INACTIVATION OF BACTERIA BY DECAY OF INCORPORATED RADIOACTIVE PHOSPHORUS (1956) (15)
- Cell position and developmental fate in leech embryogenesis. (1990) (15)
- You can take the ethics out of altruism but you can't take the altruism out of ethics. (1977) (14)
- The Development of a Simple Nervous System (1982) (14)
- Papers on Bacterial Viruses (1965) (13)
- Protein synthesis and the onset of intracellular bacteriophage growth. III. Replication of genome of a secondary phage. (1962) (13)
- Protein synthesis and the onset of intracellular bacteriophage growth: II. Stabilization to 32P decay of the genome of a secondary phage (1960) (13)
- Explicit and Implicit Semantic Content of The Genetic Information (1977) (13)
- Mortality due to radioactive phosphorus as an index to bacteriophage development. (1953) (13)
- Function and formation of neural systems : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Function and Formation of Neural Systems, Berlin 1977, March 7 to 11 (1977) (12)
- The poverty of scientism and the promise of structuralist ethics. (1976) (12)
- Physiological effects of the RNA control (RC) gene inE. coli (1963) (12)
- Prevalence of antibody to human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HLTV-1) in Australian aborigines, and detection in Indonesian sera. (1990) (11)
- Properties of Polymers as Functions of Conversion. IV. Composition Studies of Rubber-like Copolymers1 (1948) (11)
- Phage and the origins of molecular biology : the centennial edition (2007) (10)
- Coupled Regulation of Bacterial RNA and Protein Synthesis (1967) (9)
- Cell Lineage and Cell Interactions in the Determination of Developmental Cell Fates (1986) (9)
- The Aperiodic Crystal of Heredity (1995) (9)
- The Max Delbrück lecture. Light and life: Niels Bohr's legacy to contemporary biology. (1989) (9)
- Meaning in Art and Science (1985) (9)
- Programmatic Phenomena, Hermeneutics, and Neurobiology (1987) (8)
- The poverty of neurophilosophy. (1990) (8)
- Epistemic dualism of mind and body. (1998) (7)
- Radioactive phosphorus tracer studies on the reproduction of T4 bacteriophage. I. Intracellular appearance of phage-like material. (2009) (7)
- Glass bead game (1986) (7)
- The dilemma of science and morals. (1974) (7)
- Molecular biology and metaphysics (1974) (7)
- Introduction to the Leech (1999) (7)
- Thinking About Seeing (1980) (6)
- AN IDENTICAL DUPLEX STRUCTURE FOR POLYNUCLEOTIDES. (1956) (6)
- Morality as a biological phenomenon : report of the Dahlem Workshop on Biology and Morals, Berlin 1977, November 28-December 2 (1978) (6)
- The 1969 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. (1969) (6)
- What They are Saying About Honest Jim (1968) (6)
- Cell lineage analysis by intracellular injection of tracer substances. (1982) (6)
- Paradoxes of free will (2002) (6)
- Nazis, Women and Molecular Bíology (1998) (5)
- NEURAL CIRCUITS FOR GENERATING RHYTHMIC (1978) (5)
- Are Genes "Selfish"? (1978) (5)
- 24 - Microinjectable Probes for Tracing Cell Lineage in Development (1990) (5)
- Properties of Polymers as Functions of Conversion. II. Intrinsic Viscosities1 (1947) (5)
- A Theory of Vapor Pressures of Liquids Based on van der Waals' Equation of State. II. Binary Mixtures (1949) (5)
- Cell lineage in development (1987) (4)
- Intracellular Multiplication of Bacterial Viruses (1961) (4)
- Binding of E. coli transfer RNA to E. coli RNA polymerase. (1966) (4)
- Rhythm generator circuits in a simple nervous system. (1983) (4)
- 1965 Nobel laureates in medicine or physiology. (1965) (4)
- Virtually guided movements: Group report (1977) (4)
- Cybernetics of the insect optomotor response (1966) (4)
- Anticoagulant And Fibrinolytic Properties Of The Salivary Gland Proteins From The Leech Haementeria Ghilianii (1981) (4)
- A Thought-Collective (1979) (4)
- Phage and the origins of molecular biology : [essays] (1966) (4)
- Creation in Art and Science (1983) (3)
- Bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up. Allan C. Wilson, 1934-1991. (1991) (3)
- Transfer distribution of the DNA of T4 phage over its progeny (1965) (3)
- Effect of radiophosphorus decay on cistron function in bacteriophage T4. II. Stabilization to inactivation during phage growth. (1966) (3)
- The mind-body problem: neurophilosophy. (1987) (3)
- The The Electrolytic Transference Properties of Polymeric Acids. Frederick (1950) (3)
- Semantics and Neural Development (1984) (3)
- Bacterial genetic factors controlling the suppression of T4 phage Amber mutants (2004) (3)
- Programmatic Phenomena, Hermeneutics and Complex Networks (1981) (3)
- A giant of genetics (2004) (2)
- Francis Crick. (2006) (2)
- Of flies, mice, and men (1999) (2)
- The End of Science?: Attack and Defense (1991) (2)
- Effects of chloramphenicol and of multiplicity of infection on induced mutation in bacteriophage T4 (1962) (2)
- Molecular genetics : an introductory narrative / Gunther S. Stent (1971) (2)
- The Multiplication of Bacterial Viruses (1953) (2)
- A picaresque genius (2000) (2)
- Bacterial genetic factors controlling the suppression of T4 phage Amber mutants (2004) (1)
- Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life (2001) (1)
- Cellular communication. (1972) (1)
- Tinkering The possible and the actual. By F. Jacob. Seattle: University of Washington Press. (1982). 80 pp. $8.95-cloth; $3.95-paper (available from Pantheon Books, New York) (1982) (1)
- Specificity of the amino acid transfer reaction inE. coli strains carrying different alleles of the RNA control (RC) gene (1963) (1)
- Cell Lineage and Segmentation in Development (1988) (1)
- [Inactivation of a prophage by the disintegration of radiophosphorus]. (1957) (1)
- Multichannel audio monitor for detecting electrical signals. (1978) (1)
- It's in the Genes (1999) (1)
- Pepherial feedback in the leech swimming rhythm. (1976) (1)
- From probability to molecular biology From egg to embryo. By J. M. W. Slack. New York: Cambridge University Press. (1983). 241 pp. $49.50 (1984) (1)
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau revisited (1981) (1)
- Molecular biology: peroration or obituary. (1970) (1)
- Book Review:Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. Ludwik Fleck, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Robert K. Merton, Fred Bradley (1980) (1)
- The dilemma of science and morals. (1974) (1)
- The electrolytic transference properties of polymeric acids. (1950) (1)
- The seamy side of science Betrayers of the truth: Fraud and deceit in the halls of science. By W. Broad and N. Wade. New York: Simon and Schuster. (1982). 256 pp. $14.95 (1983) (1)
- A short epistemology of bacteriophage multiplication. (1962) (1)
- DNA discovery in perspective. (1968) (0)
- A self shaped and reshaped: the statue within. (1988) (0)
- What They are Saying About Honest Jim (1976) (0)
- Mind from matter? Max Delbrück's lectures on evolutionary epistemology. (1985) (0)
- CROSS REA CTIVA TION OF GENETIC LOCI OF T2 BA CTERIOPHAGE A FTER DECA Y OF INCORPORA TED RADIOA CTI VE PHOSPHOR US (2005) (0)
- Cognitive Limits of Science (1988) (0)
- Origin, Limits and Future of Sciences (1983) (1999) (0)
- Letter from Gunther S. Stent to Charles Yanofsky, Aaron Novick, Joshua Lederberg, Armin D. Kaiser, and Robert L. Sinsheimer (1961) (0)
- Comments on M. Volkenstein's ‘About the freedom of will’ (1980) (0)
- De Vries, Hugo (2001) (0)
- Response : Limits to Understanding? (1975) (0)
- On Art and Science: A Reply to Leonard B. Meyer (1975) (0)
- Sol Spiegelman. (1994) (0)
- SCIENCE NEVER ENDS: A NEW PARADIGM IS BEING BORN IN BIOLOGY (2013) (0)
- X as the Y of Z (1979) (0)
- The Physics of Viruses . Ernest C. Pollard. Academic Press, New York, 1953. xi + 230 pp. Illus. $5.50. (1955) (0)
- The Molecular Basis of Evolution. (1960) (0)
- Cell Lineage and Cell Interaction in the Developing Leech Nervous System (1984) (0)
- Hermeneutics and the Analysis of Complex Biological Systems (2016) (0)
- Book Review:The Path to the Double Helix. Robert Olby (1975) (0)
- : P.K. Feyerabend: Knowledge, Science and Relativism, edited by J. Preston (2000) (0)
- Response : DNA Discovery in Perspective (1968) (0)
- Niels Bohr's Last Lecture — An Introduction (2007) (0)
- André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902-30 September 1994) (1997) (0)
- Informational school (1991) (0)
- Challenging Biological Problems: Directions toward Their Solution. John A. BehnkeBiology, History, and Natural Philosophy. Allen D. Breck , Wolfgang Yourgrau (1973) (0)
- Paradoxes of Progress—False attributions (1980) (0)
- Illuminating Life. Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor, Volume 1 (1903–1969) (2000) (0)
- Letter from Gunther S. Stent to Alfred E. Mirsky (1969) (0)
- Developmental Neurobiology of the Leech (1984) (0)
- Impossibility: Thoughts about the unknowable, the undoable and the unthinkable (1998) (0)
- The Unique and the Commonplace in the Creations of Art and Science (1986) (0)
- Molecular Biology: Peroration or Obituary (1970) (0)
- Book Reviews: The Physics of Viruses (1955) (0)
- Ten Years after Asilomar: The Lessons of Expertise and Self-Interest (1985) (0)
- Letter from Max Alfert, Patricia St. Lawrence, and Gunther S. Stent to Joshua Lederberg (1960) (0)
- Stimulation of the differential rate of β-galactosidase synthesis in E. coli by trimethoprim (1968) (0)
- Bacteriophage Research: Second Royaumont Colloquium (1958) (0)
- Beyond the Genome (2006) (0)
- The Bacteriophage@@@Papers on Bacterial Viruses (1965) (0)
- Letter to the editor. (1975) (0)
- Letter from Gunther S. Stent to Harold Varmus (1991) (0)
- Discussion: Part II (1984) (0)
- Morality as a Biological Phenomenon the Pre-Suppositions of Sociobiological Research /Edited by Gunther S. Stent. --. -- (1980) (0)
- CROSS REA CTIVA TION OF GENETIC LOCI OF T2 BA CTERIOPHAGE A FTER DECA Y OF INCORPORA TED RADIOA CTI VE PHOSPHOR US (2005) (0)
- Letter from Gunther S. Stent to Joshua Lederberg (1957) (0)
- Art and Science (1984) (0)
- Stabilization to 32P decay and onset of replication of bacteriophage DNA (1961) (0)
- The future lies ahead (1985) (0)
- A Proposal for a Workshop to Consider Structural and Procedural Changes in the NIH Office of Scientific Integrity (1991) (0)
- 1964 Gordon Research Conference on Nucleic Acids (2008) (0)
- The Ode to Objectivity (1979) (0)
- From Egg to Embryo — Determinative Events in Early Development J.M.W. Sl (1984) (0)
- NEURAL CIRCUITS FOR GENERATING RHYTHMIC MOVEMENTS (1981) (0)
- BACTERIA INACTIVATION AND RADIOACTIVE PHOSPHORUS DECAY Experimental Inhibition of Bacterial Growth at High Specific Activities of t ~ (2003) (0)
- Paradoxes of free will and the limits of human reason. (2004) (0)
- Molecular genetic neuroscience, F. O. Schmitt, S. Bird, and F. E. Bloom, eds., Ravan Press, New York, 1982, xx + 492 pp. pricE: $74.00 (1983) (0)
- To the Stockholm station: makers of the molecular-biological revolution. (1980) (0)
- Origin, limits and future of science. (1983) (0)
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