Home

Reference Database

Export 12 results:
Filters: Author is Abir-Am, Pnina G.  [Clear All Filters]
Submitted
Abir-Am PG. The discourse of physical power and biological knowledge in the 1930s: A reappraisal of the Rockefeller Foundation's 'policy' in molecular biology. Soc Stud Sci. Submitted;12:341-82.
Abir-Am PG. Essay review: How scientists view their heroes: Some remarks on the mechanism of myth-construction. Journal of the History of Biology. Submitted;15:281-316.
Abir-Am PG. Introduction [Issue on Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory]. Osiris. Submitted;2nd Series 14:1-33.
2006
Abir-Am PG. Molecular biology and its recent historiography: A transnational quest for the 'big picture'. History of Science. 2006;xliv:1-24.
1999
Abir-Am PG. The first American and French commemorations in molecular biology: From collective memory to comparative history. Osiris. 1999;2nd Series 14:324-72.
1992
Abir-Am PG. A historical ethnography of a scientific anniversary in molecular biology: The first protein X-ray photograph (1984, 1934). Soc Epist. 1992;6:323-54.
Abir-Am PG. The politics of macromolecules: Molecular biologists, biochemists, and rhetoric. Osiris. 1992;2nd Series 7:14-191.
1991
Abir-Am PG. Noblesse oblige: Lives of molecular biologists. Isis. 1991;82:326-43.

Review ofFrancis Crick. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series.) xiii + 182 pp., illus., index. New York: Basic Books, 1988.Franqois Jacob. The Statue Within: An Autobiography. Translated by Franklin Philip. (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series.) vi + 326 pp., index. New York: Basic Books, 1988.Arthur Kornberg. For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist. xii + 336 pp., illus., figs., apps., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1989.Rita Levi-Montalcini. In Praise of Imperfection: My Life and Work. Translated by Luigi Attardi. (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series.) xiii + 220 pp., illus., index. New York: Basic Books, 1988.Jacques Monod. Pour une ethique de la connaissance. Compiled by Bernardino Fantini. (Histoire des Sciences.) 169 pp., illus. Paris: Editions de la Decouverte, 1988.Max Perutz. Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. xviii + 285 pp., figs., tables, index. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989.Anthony Serafini. Linus Pauling: A Man and His Science. xxii + 310 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

1988
Abir-Am PG. The assessment of interdisciplinary research in the 1930s: The Rockefeller Foundation and physico-chemical morphology. Minerva. 1988;26:153-76.
1987
Abir-Am PG. The biotheoretical gathering, trans-disciplinary authority and the incipient legitimation of molecular biology in the 1930s: New perspectives on the historical sociology of science. History of Science. 1987;25:1-70.

EXTSY

1984
Abir-Am PG. Beyond deterministic sociology and apologetic history: Reassessing the impact of research policy upon new scientific disciplines (Reply to Fuerst, Bartels, Olby and Yoxen). Social Studies of Science. 1984;14:252-63.
1980
Abir-Am PG. From biochemistry to molecular biology: DNA and the acculturated journey if the critic of science Erwin Chargaff. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 1980;2:3-60.