scholarly journals Understanding the Unfamiliar Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology Evelyn Fox Keller

BioScience ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 627-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dinsmore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Evelyn Fox Keller

Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology. Evelyn Fox Keller

Isis ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Paul N. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Evelyn Fox Keller

The age of biology: When plant physiology was in the center of American life science

2020 ◽  
pp. 007327532095412
Author(s):  
David P. D. Munns
Keyword(s):  
Plant Physiology ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Evelyn Fox Keller ◽  
Biological Practice

For much of the twentieth century, plant physiologists considered themselves in an ideal position to study and explain the functions and processes of plants. Much of that authority stemmed from plant physiologists’ long-standing commitment to experimental control and the integration of the physical sciences into biological practice. This article places plant physiology back in the center of the story of the recent life sciences. It shows the development of parallel experimental research programs into environmental as well as genetic effects on growth and development in plant physiology and genetics, and notes that the pursuit of an experimental environment was celebrated as much as (and occasionally more than) a molecular vision of life throughout most of the twentieth century by much of the plant science community. Thus, this article concludes that the history of the recent life sciences needs new complementary narratives of plant physiology with genetics, new concepts with technological tools, and plant-sized scales with the molecular. The history of the ‘Age of Biology,’ as the plant scientists saw it, helps confront the issue first posed by Evelyn Fox Keller, namely that the history of genetics has overshadowed a larger history of experimental life science. My answer here is through a larger narrative of the rise of the complementary experimental sciences of genes and environments in the life sciences.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century Classics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiva Wijesinha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century
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