Doctoral Dissertation Research: Unifying Life: C.B. van Niel and the Ideals of the "Delft School" in Twentieth Century Biology

9311191 Lesch生物学的历史传统上是复杂有机体的历史。 然而，到了世纪中期，生物学中一个重要组成部分的研究对象发生了根本性的转变：研究对象变成了微生物，特别是病毒和细菌，而不是更复杂的有机体。 这种转变导致了分子生物学的诞生，彻底改变了整个生物学学科。 Susan B女士。在约翰·莱施博士的指导下，斯帕斯正在研究微生物学所谓的“德尔夫特学派”中这种转变的来源之一。 她的论文研究集中在C上。B。货车尼尔（1897-1985），1929年他成为斯坦福大学海洋生物站的教授，将“德尔夫特学派”的理想带到了美国。 货车尼尔教了三十多年的著名课程，其中参加了显着的一些主要球员在发展分子生物学。 Spath女士正在评估这门课程对生物学在分子生物学首次形成为一个独特的研究项目的关键时期发展的影响。 她还研究了货车尼尔和他的学生兼同事罗杰·斯坦尼耶在1962年提出的细胞生命基本类别的定义。 ***

9311191 Lesch The history of biology has traditionally been the history of complex organisms. By the mid-20th century, however, a radical shift had occurred in the object of study for a significant component within biology: the object of study became microorganisms, particularly viruses and bacteria rather than the more complex organisms. This transformation resulting in the creation of molecular biology revolutionized the whole discipline of biology. Ms. Susan B. Spath, working under the direction of Dr. John Lesch, is studying one of the sources of this transformation in the so-called "Delft School" of microbiology. She is focussing her dissertation research on C. B. van Niel (1897-1985), who brought the "Delft School" ideals to the United States when he became professor at Stanford University's marine biological station in 1929. Van Niel taught for over thirty years a celebrated course in which participated a remarkable number of the major players in the development of molecular biology. Ms. Spath is assessing the impact of this course on the way biology developed in the critical period when molecular biology was first forming as a distinct research program. She is also examining the definitions of the fundamental categories of cellular life as formulated by van Niel and his student and colleague Roger Stanier in 1962. ***