Suzanne Bourgeois
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520276079
- eISBN:
- 9780520956599
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520276079.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book chronicles the creation and early history of the Salk Institute, a private biomedical sciences research institute in La Jolla, CA. It covers about twenty years, from 1955, the year of the ...
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This book chronicles the creation and early history of the Salk Institute, a private biomedical sciences research institute in La Jolla, CA. It covers about twenty years, from 1955, the year of the successful development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, to the mid-1970s. It recounts how, with the support of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (the March of Dimes) and a gift of land from the city of San Diego, Salk founded a pioneering institute of molecular biology. He attracted a stellar faculty and a remarkable architect, Louis Kahn. The background and war experiences of the founders are woven into the genesis of the Salk Institute. Their lives were intertwined from Europe, the South Pacific, and Japan to Los Alamos and the American Midwest. The birth of the Salk Institute was plagued by financial and governance crises and by incidents that reflected the political and social events of the post–World War II period, including the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture movement. An interesting attempt at considering the role of biology in human affairs is remembered and found to have left a lasting legacy. In the mid-1970s, a change in governance marked a new era and the end of the institute’s genesis.Less
This book chronicles the creation and early history of the Salk Institute, a private biomedical sciences research institute in La Jolla, CA. It covers about twenty years, from 1955, the year of the successful development of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk, to the mid-1970s. It recounts how, with the support of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (the March of Dimes) and a gift of land from the city of San Diego, Salk founded a pioneering institute of molecular biology. He attracted a stellar faculty and a remarkable architect, Louis Kahn. The background and war experiences of the founders are woven into the genesis of the Salk Institute. Their lives were intertwined from Europe, the South Pacific, and Japan to Los Alamos and the American Midwest. The birth of the Salk Institute was plagued by financial and governance crises and by incidents that reflected the political and social events of the post–World War II period, including the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture movement. An interesting attempt at considering the role of biology in human affairs is remembered and found to have left a lasting legacy. In the mid-1970s, a change in governance marked a new era and the end of the institute’s genesis.
Ralph Mitchell Siegel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199734344
- eISBN:
- 9780190255862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199734344.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
In this chapter, the author describes the Salk Institute where he performs his experiments on monkeys to understand the nature of consciousness. Named after Jonas Salk, the Institute employs ...
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In this chapter, the author describes the Salk Institute where he performs his experiments on monkeys to understand the nature of consciousness. Named after Jonas Salk, the Institute employs hard-nosed, aggressive, extremely competitive, and brilliant scientists who have continued to articulate and define its ideal. The author cites three men who have contributed to the Salk Institute's progress: Frederic de Hoffmann, Renato Dulbecco, and Francis Crick.Less
In this chapter, the author describes the Salk Institute where he performs his experiments on monkeys to understand the nature of consciousness. Named after Jonas Salk, the Institute employs hard-nosed, aggressive, extremely competitive, and brilliant scientists who have continued to articulate and define its ideal. The author cites three men who have contributed to the Salk Institute's progress: Frederic de Hoffmann, Renato Dulbecco, and Francis Crick.
Stephen K. Reed
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197529003
- eISBN:
- 9780197529034
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197529003.003.0012
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Many design problems are ill-structured in which the start state, the goal state, and intermediate states are incompletely specified. They do not have right or wrong answers, only better or worse ...
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Many design problems are ill-structured in which the start state, the goal state, and intermediate states are incompletely specified. They do not have right or wrong answers, only better or worse ones. They require decomposition into smaller parts that are revisited as the design progresses. Scientists also confront design problems as they search for nature’s design, such as the structure of DNA. The success of Watson and Crick in discovering its double-helix structure was influenced by their access to X-ray diffraction pictures, ability to interpret these pictures, utilize the relative amounts of bases in the molecule, and recognize that two strands of a molecule provide a mechanism for replication. The Geisel Library on the University of California, San Diego, campus illustrates the combination of function and beauty in designing a building. The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, is widely acclaimed as a magnificent achievement by Louis Kahn. The addition of the East Building is an example of the challenges encountered in making modifications.Less
Many design problems are ill-structured in which the start state, the goal state, and intermediate states are incompletely specified. They do not have right or wrong answers, only better or worse ones. They require decomposition into smaller parts that are revisited as the design progresses. Scientists also confront design problems as they search for nature’s design, such as the structure of DNA. The success of Watson and Crick in discovering its double-helix structure was influenced by their access to X-ray diffraction pictures, ability to interpret these pictures, utilize the relative amounts of bases in the molecule, and recognize that two strands of a molecule provide a mechanism for replication. The Geisel Library on the University of California, San Diego, campus illustrates the combination of function and beauty in designing a building. The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, is widely acclaimed as a magnificent achievement by Louis Kahn. The addition of the East Building is an example of the challenges encountered in making modifications.
Ralph Mitchell Siegel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199734344
- eISBN:
- 9780190255862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199734344.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
In this chapter, the author reflects on his journey toward understanding the nature of consciousness. He describes his experiments on monkeys at the Salk Institute to elucidate how the mind and ...
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In this chapter, the author reflects on his journey toward understanding the nature of consciousness. He describes his experiments on monkeys at the Salk Institute to elucidate how the mind and brain, which he considers as one indistinguishable whole, work. He also talks about his interest in visual representation as part of neuronal processing.Less
In this chapter, the author reflects on his journey toward understanding the nature of consciousness. He describes his experiments on monkeys at the Salk Institute to elucidate how the mind and brain, which he considers as one indistinguishable whole, work. He also talks about his interest in visual representation as part of neuronal processing.
Ralph Mitchell Siegel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199734344
- eISBN:
- 9780190255862
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199734344.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
In this chapter, the author recalls his first encounter with Francis Crick, one of the leading figures in the field of vision science at the time. He met Crick while interviewing for a postdoctoral ...
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In this chapter, the author recalls his first encounter with Francis Crick, one of the leading figures in the field of vision science at the time. He met Crick while interviewing for a postdoctoral position at the Salk Institute. They talked about the author's research, touching on topics such as neurons, synapses, dendrites, and neurotransmitters.Less
In this chapter, the author recalls his first encounter with Francis Crick, one of the leading figures in the field of vision science at the time. He met Crick while interviewing for a postdoctoral position at the Salk Institute. They talked about the author's research, touching on topics such as neurons, synapses, dendrites, and neurotransmitters.
