Time, Love, Memory (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Weiner
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography and history of science
- Setting: University and other biological research laboratories in the United States and elsewhere
- Principal Characters: Seymour Benzer, Sidney Brenner, Francis Crick, Max Delbrück, Jeff Hall, Dean Hamer, Ronald J. Konopka, Edward Lewis, Barbara McClintock, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Chip Quinn, Michael Rosbash, Erwin Schrödinger, Gunther Stent, Alfred Henry Sturtevant, James D. Watson, Edward O. Wilson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Science and technology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Memory, Human behavior, Colleges or universities, Genetics, DNA, Experiments, Biology or biologists, Flies
- Locales: United States
A simple glass milk bottle, the so-called fly bottle, that common and unglamorous tool of many research biologists, has been the scene of some of the most significant discoveries of the twentieth century in genetics and molecular biology. Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior recounts the story of the work of many scientists but especially that of Seymour Benzer, who did basic research using genetic dissection, an approach that he “had started . . . with single genes . . . working up to behavior” in a fly room at the California...
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