George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

by Paul Berg and Maxine F. Singer, Ph.D. ’57 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) The authors provide a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning “giant of genetics” and president of the University of Chicago. Beadle’s work from 1940 to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era.