MED HIST 133 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gene Gun, Startup Company, International Geophysical Year
7 Jan 2017
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Raymond gosling- a student and the person who took the famous image of x-ray diffraction (photo 51) the photo was not taken by. Crick, watson, and wilkins won the nobel prize, but gosling"s name wasn"t mentioned. Tobacco mosaic virus- franklin began working on tmv, but. Franklin, watson and crick all exchanged ideas about structure but franklin proposed her own theories. Two of the members were watson and crick. Localized mode- critical moment (mullis in car, weekend alone, experiment in 1983), number of actors was just mullis, his girlfriend, and friends, event focuses on concept (aha moment, skepticism from colleagues, biographical details) Distributed mode- rabinow"s story, longer period of time (1980s), actors were mullins and other scientists (henry erlich), the events were concept and execution, technical details of pcr, publication of papers and uptake into the field: mr. The previous technique was slow and labor intensive, the cetus engineers wanted to automate the process.
