{"product_id":"the-road-to-discovery-jan-witkowski-9781621821083","title":"The Road to Discovery: A Short History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Road to Discovery: A Short History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2015 to mark the 125th anniversary of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt Cold Spring Harbor, in a bucolic setting on the north shore of New York's Long Island, two interdependent research centers in biology were founded as Charles Darwin's insights into heredity and evolution shook the world of science. Fifty years later, those centers would emerge as a single institution that would cradle another revolution, the new science of molecular biology, and advance to world renown in research and professional education. It is a remarkable story, with a path of progress that was neither simple nor assured. \u003cem\u003eThe Road to Discovery\u003c\/em\u003e traces half a century of changes in name, leadership, governance, and financial fortune. And scientific missteps, most notoriously in eugenics, were triumphed by innovative work in genetics, human metabolism, and cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the 1940s through the 1960s, the Laboratory was home to fundamental discoveries about the nature of genetic material and a cauldron of critical assessment of ideas about genes by sharp-tongued summer visitors. James D. Watson, a junior member of that group, would go on to deduce the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953 and help create the new field of molecular genetics before returning to Cold Spring Harbor as Director 15 years later. As the book shows, his \"Bold Plan\" would inspire, cajole, and goad into existence an era of expansion, new research directions, and initiatives in conferences, courses, publishing, and education that redefined the scope of the Laboratory. Under Bruce Stillman's leadership, that scope has grown still more, making the Laboratory unique among research institutions worldwide--envied, imitated, but not reproduced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book's author is the science historian Jan Witkowski. His knowledge of the subject is wide and his affection for it deep. He brings to his task insights that only a decades-long career as a staff member can provide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor over a century, the Laboratory has been influenced by exceptional personalities, outstanding achievements, and dramatic events. \u003cem\u003eThe Road to Discovery\u003c\/em\u003e captures that history in a lively narrative illuminated by vignettes on the importance of individual scientists and their discoveries. Abundantly documented with material from the Laboratory's archives, it is an accessible book that will appeal to anyone interested in the development of biomedical science and biotechnology through the 20th century to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Witkowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621821080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621821083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 8.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Jan Witkowski","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44634566263039,"sku":"9781621821083","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24ef540b-71fc-4e4b-a788-e105dd69572b.jpg?v=1703589901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-road-to-discovery-jan-witkowski-9781621821083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}