Laboratory Practice and Disciplinary Transformation in Postwar California

克里格博士正在研究二战后作为文化权威和制度强大学科的生物化学和分子生物学的发展。她的重点是烟草花叶病毒的科学和修辞应用，这是生物化学家温德尔·斯坦利（Wendell Stanley）在实验室研究的一种植物病毒，他因其结晶而获得1946年诺贝尔奖。本研究的主要部分是关于战后科学研究和学科权力的变化。斯坦利在伯克利的实验室和院系是战后生物化学和分子生物学制度建设的一个研究案例。她的分析侧重于利用病毒作为关键的医疗和农业制剂，以获得公众对分子病毒学的支持，并试图将生物化学和分子生物学的学科中心围绕病毒作为实验室材料。该项目旨在将分子生物学和生物化学的历史发展与20世纪美国的其他文化和政治变化结合起来。

Dr. Creager is examining the development of biochemistry and molecular biology as culturally authoritative and institutionally powerful disciplines after World War II. Her focus is on the scientific and rhetorical uses of tobacco mosaic virus, a plant virus studied in laboratories of biochemist Wendell Stanley, who received the 1946 Nobel Prize for its crystallization. The major part of this study concerns the changes in scientific research and disciplinary power which occurred in the postwar period. Stanley's laboratory and departments in Berkeley serve as a case study in the institutional building of biochemistry and molecular biology after the war. Her analysis focuses on the uses of viruses as key medical and agricultural agents in gaining public support for molecular virology as well as on attempts to center disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology around viruses as laboratory materials. This project aims to integrate historical developments in molecular biology and biochemistry with other cultural and political changes in twentieth-century America.