(2005), The Writing Life of James D. Watson, page: 10, publisher: CSHL Press, ISBN: 978-0-87969-700-6
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Because of the questions posed by Schrödinger and the nature of the problem of identifying and describing the gene itself, the early development of molecular biology relied greatly on scientists who brought insights from physics to biology—Max Delbrück, Salvador Luria, George Gamow, Sir Lawrence Bragg, Francis Crick, Max Perutz, John Kendrew, Maurice Wilkins, Desmond Bernal, and Linus Pauling being the best known of these scientists.

— Errol Friedberg

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Errol Friedberg

About Errol Friedberg

Errol Clive Friedberg (born October 2, 1937) is an American molecular biologist and historian of science, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.