Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology the Centennial Edition

This hugely influential book published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbrück is now republished as The Centennial Edition. On first publication the book was hailed as “[introducing] into the literature of science for the first time a self–conscious historical element in which the participants in scientific discovery engage in writing their own chronicle. As such it is an important document in the history of biology...� (Journal of History of Biology). And in another review it was described as “required reading for every student of experimental biology...[who] will sense the smell and rattle of the laboratory� (Bioscience). The book was a formative influence on many of today’s leading scientists.