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Horace Freeland Judson (1931–2011) was an American science historian and writer. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University and the author of several works on the history and philosophy of science.
Known for: The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
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The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
This landmark work chronicles the birth and growth of molecular biology, tracing the discoveries that revealed the structure of DNA and the mechanisms of heredity. Judson provides a detailed narrative of the scientists, experiments, and intellectual breakthroughs that transformed biology into a molecular science.
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Early 20th-Century Biology
At the dawn of the twentieth century, biology was a descriptive science. Its practitioners admired the elegance of heredity but were still caught in frameworks built from Mendelian genetics and crude biochemistry. Genes were abstractions, not molecules; inheritance was a pattern, not a process. In t...
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The Physicists’ Entry into Biology
Into this uncertain world stepped a group of physicists—restless, imaginative, seeking new frontiers after the turmoil of wartime science. Chief among them was Max Delbrück, who brought the precision and rigor of physics into biology. To Delbrück, biology presented a puzzle of information and stabil...
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About Horace Freeland Judson
Horace Freeland Judson (1931–2011) was an American science historian and writer. He was a professor at Johns Hopkins University and the author of several works on the history and philosophy of science. His writing is known for its depth, clarity, and historical rigor.
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