1930's Science and Technology | "Riddle of Life"

Memo

By: Max Delbrück

Date: August 1937

Source: Delbrück, Max. "Riddle of Life." Memorandum to Niels Bohr, Berlin, August 1937. Published as an Appendix to "A Physicist's Renewed Look at Biology—Twenty Years Later." Nobel lecture, December 10, 1969. Reprinted in Fischer, Ernst Peter, and Carol Lipson. Thinking About Science: Max Delbrück and the Origins of Molecular Biology. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988, 99–101. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1969/Delbruck-lectur... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Author: Max Delbrück (1906–1981) obtained a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Göttingen University in 1930. Over the next several years, he worked with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and...