Laboratory Practice and Disciplinary Transformation in Postwar California

战后加州的实验室实践和学科转型

• 批准号: 9412291
• 负责人: Angela Creager
• 金额: $ 9.29万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fixed Amount Award
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-15 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9412291&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Practice; Disciplinary; Transformation; Postwar

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.

Creager 博士正在研究二战后生物化学和分子生物学作为文化权威和制度强大学科的发展。 她的重点是烟草花叶病毒的科学和修辞用途，这是一种在生物化学家温德尔·斯坦利的实验室中研究的植物病毒，温德尔·斯坦利因其结晶获得了 1946 年诺贝尔奖。 本研究的主要部分涉及战后时期科学研究和学科权力的变化。 斯坦利在伯克利的实验室和部门是战后生物化学和分子生物学机构建设的案例研究。 她的分析重点是使用病毒作为关键的医疗和农业媒介来获得公众对分子病毒学的支持，以及尝试将生物化学和分子生物学学科以病毒作为实验室材料作为中心。 该项目旨在将分子生物学和生物化学的历史发展与二十世纪美国的其他文化和政治变革结合起来。