Robert Olby
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Cecil Olby was a research professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Formerly Reader at the University of Leeds, UK, Robert Olby is a historian of 19th and 20th century biology, his specialist fields being genetics and molecular biology. With the assistance of Martin Packer, Olby completed an authorized biography of the late Francis Crick. It is entitled Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets, after an article in The New York Times on February 2, 1962.
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Published Works
- In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human HeredityDaniel J. Kevles (1986) (712)
- The path to the double helix (1974) (236)
- Origins of Mendelism (1966) (174)
- Mendel No Mendelian? (1979) (164)
- [Table of Contents to] "The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA" (1994) (164)
- The Dimensions of Scientific Controversy: The Biometric—Mendelian Debate (1989) (79)
- Quiet debut for the double helix (2003) (72)
- The understanding of nature. Essays in the philosophy of biology (1974) (54)
- Companion to The History of Modern Science (2018) (44)
- William Bateson's Introduction of Mendelism to England: A Reassessment (1987) (42)
- Social imperialism and state support for agricultural research in Edwardian Britain (1991) (33)
- Eleven references to Mendel before 1900 (1968) (29)
- Schrödinger's problem: What is life? (1971) (29)
- Scientists and bureaucrats in the establishment of the John Innes horticultural institution under William Bateson (1989) (29)
- Charles Darwin's Manuscript of Pangenesis (1963) (25)
- Horticulture: the font for the baptism of genetics (2000) (23)
- Francis Crick, DNA, and the Central Dogma. (1970) (22)
- Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets (2009) (21)
- Mendelism: from hybrids and trade to a science. (2000) (16)
- Genomics in the public domain: strategy and policy (2000) (15)
- The macromolecular concept and the origins of molecular biology. (1970) (15)
- Variation and Inheritance (2008) (14)
- DNA before Watson—Crick (1974) (10)
- An Early Reference to Genetic Coding (1967) (9)
- The Sheriff and the Cowboys: or Weaver's Support of Astbury and Pauling (1984) (9)
- Avery in Retrospect (1972) (8)
- Biochemical origins of molecular biology: a discussion (1986) (7)
- The origins of modern biochemistry (1978) (7)
- The origins of molecular genetics (1974) (6)
- Cell chemistry in Miescher's day. (1969) (6)
- British Society for the History of Science Report of Council for the year 1998 (1999) (5)
- The moving finger writes (1966) (5)
- Johann Gregor Mendel (1991) (4)
- The significance of the macromolecules in the historiography of molecular biology. (1979) (3)
- Biology and broader agendas. (1993) (3)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought: Darwin and Heredity (2013) (2)
- The Molecular Revolution in Biology (2020) (2)
- More insights from Crick's lost letters (2010) (2)
- The Monk in the Garden (review) (2003) (2)
- Francis Galton's derivation of Mendelian ratios in 1875 (1965) (2)
- Early nineteenth century European scientists (1967) (2)
- Why celebrate the golden jubilee of the double helix? (2003) (2)
- The 'mad pursuit': X-ray crystallographers' search for the structure of haemoglobin. (1985) (2)
- Mendel in translation (1968) (1)
- History of biology at the Naples Zoological Station (1978) (1)
- Human Genetics, Eugenics and Race (1977) (1)
- The Mendel Centenary (1965) (1)
- Histochemistry and cytology (1984) (1)
- Britain's resources of coal and spent uranium fuel (1982) (1)
- Confirming a bold prediction (2002) (1)
- The drawbacks of dynamism (1988) (1)
- Whetting the appetite (1999) (1)
- Is history of science good for one? (1974) (1)
- Failure Story (1967) (1)
- The stuff of heredity: discoveries recounted: the transforming principle. (1985) (1)
- Late eighteenth century European scientists (1966) (1)
- Book Review:Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling Thomas Hager (1997) (1)
- DNA, History Of (2013) (1)
- … And on the eighth day …: The eighth day of creation; Makers of the revolution in biology by H. F. Judson, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979. $15.95 (686 pages) ISBN 0 67122540 5 (1979) (1)
- A retrospect on the historiography of the life sciences. (1985) (1)
- Crick, Francis Harry Compton (2013) (0)
- History of biochemistry continued. (1977) (0)
- PETER J. BEURTON, RAPHAEL FALK and HANS-JÖRG RHEINBERGER (eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+384. ISBN 0-521-77187-0. $59.95 (hardback). (2002) (0)
- [Notes for "Avery Roundtable"] (1994) (0)
- Biology and Medicine (1970) (0)
- her subject but at the same time constricted her account of the period in which Mendel actually lived. (2003) (0)
- Book reviews (2005) (0)
- Free Will. A Defence Against Neurophysiological Determinism . By J. Thorp. (Pp. 162; £8·95. Routledge & Kegan Paul: Henley-on-Thames. 1981. (1982) (0)
- For the love of enzymes: by Arthur Kornberg, Harvard University Press, 1989. £23.95 (xi + 336 pages) ISBN 0 674 30775 5 (1990) (0)
- Ideas about sexual reproduction. "Gametes and spores: ideas about sexual reproduction 1750-1914." By J. Farley. Essay review. (1986) (0)
- Transformaing principle of pneumococcus. (1972) (0)
- Too young for gardening (2003) (0)
- The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics: A Centenary Reappraisal. Sahotra SarkarThe Search for the Gene. Bruce Wallace (1994) (0)
- A life in science (2010) (0)
- A History of the Life Sciences.Third Edition.ByLois A Magner.New York: Marcel Dekker. $69.75. xiii + 502 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–8247–0824–5. 2002. (2003) (0)
- The Identity of the Transforming Substance (1994) (0)
- A Century since Mendel. M. Campbell (1989) (0)
- Diana B. Dutton. Worse than the Disease. Pitfalls of Medical Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 528. ISBN 0-521-34023-3. £25, $29.95. (1991) (0)
- The origins of modern biochemistry: a retrospect on proteins. Essay review. (1982) (0)
- The mystery of life (1981) (0)
- Sociologist and Botanist (1969) (0)
- Molecular biology: a history of the recent past: A History of Molecular Biology by Michel Morange (1999) (0)
- Anti‐chance. A reply to monod's chance and necessity: By E. Schoffeniels. Pp. 124. Pergammon Press, Oxford, 1976, £5.95 hardback, £2.95 flexicover. (Translated by B. L. Reid.) (1977) (0)
- Georges Canguilhem. Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences , translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988, Pp. xi + 160. ISBN 0-262-03137-X. (1991) (0)
- Georgina Ferry, Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Woodbury, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2007), pp. xii + 352, $39.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-087969785-3. (2011) (0)
- Sydney Brenner.A Life in Science. As told to, Lewis Wolpert. Edited interview with additional material by, Errol C. Friedberg and Eleanor Lawrence. v+191 pp., notes. London: BioMed Central Limited, 2001. $22.10 (paper). (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews (1987) (0)
- Book Reviews (1990) (0)
- Some Eighteenth Century Scientists@@@Late Eighteenth Century European Scientists (1968) (0)
- [Book Reviews] (1961) (0)
- Biochemistry as a political institution: from medical chemistry to biochemistry. (1983) (0)
- Support for Avery (1994) (0)
- The Third Autobiography (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Heritage from Mendel Edited by R. A. Brink, assisted by E. D. Styles. Pp xii + 455. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. 1967. 75s (1968) (0)
- The crystallography of the proteins. Historical aspects of protein structure (1984) (0)
- Tortuous story of DNA (1978) (0)
- BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE (1940) (0)
- Suzanne Bourgeois.Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders. xxxiv + 230 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. $49.95 (cloth). (2016) (0)
- Letter from Robert C. Olby to Joshua Lederberg (1972) (0)
- Myths and All (1969) (0)
- The Stuff of Heredity: Discoveries Recounted: The Transforming Principle . Discovering That Genes Are Made of DNA. Maclyn McCarty. Norton, New York, 1985. 252 pp., illus. $14.95. The Commonwealth Fund Book Program. (1985) (0)
- Genetics as history (1967) (0)
- Huxley, Julian Sorell (2013) (0)
- What's all this fuss about the gene? (2015) (0)
- The history of molecular biology. (1980) (0)
- Biological Sciences and Medicine (1971) (0)
- Raphael Falk.Genetic Analysis: A History of Genetic Thinking. (Studies in Philosophy and Biology.) xiv + 330 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $90 (cloth). (2010) (0)
- Notes About Contributors (1963) (0)
- 4 THE HISTORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY F (2016) (0)
- Staffan Müller-Wille & Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Eds): Heredity Produced. At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870 (2011) (0)
- Galton's ratios (1968) (0)
- Sheldon Krimsky, Genetic Alchemy. The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy . Cambridge, Mass., & London: MIT Press, 1982. Pp. xiii + 444. ISBN 0-262-11083-0. £17.50. (1985) (0)
- The convergence of behaviourism and logical positivism. (1990) (0)
- Francis Crick and James Watson (2002) (0)
- Biological History (2021) (0)
- Picturing biology (1999) (0)
- Book Review:Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1995) (0)
- Book Review:The Professor, the Institute, and DNA. Oswald T. Avery, His Life and Scientific Achievements Rene J. Dubos (1978) (0)
- The course of true science (2004) (0)
- The Emergence of Genetics (2020) (0)
- Geology and Biology (1971) (0)
- Nature's archives (1981) (0)
- Session 3: Natural Selection as a Causal Theory (2002) (0)
- Mendel in his place (1984) (0)
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