Chapter 5. Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: Balancing Autonomy and Reductionism in Biology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Historical Origins of the Three-Man Paper
6. Chapter 2. Physics and Genes: From Einstein to Delbrück 39
7. Chapter 3. Biophysics in Berlin: The Delbrück Club 61
8. Chapter 4. Exhuming the Three-Man Paper: Target-Theoretical Research in the 1930s and 1940s 99
9. Part II. Philosophical Perspectives on the Three-Man Paper
10. Chapter 5. Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: Balancing Autonomy and Reductionism in Biology 145
11. Chapter 6. Was Delbrück a Reductionist? 179
12. Part III. The Three-Man Paper
13. Translator’s Preface 213
14. The Text of the Three-Man Paper 221
15. References in the Three-Man Paper 272
16. Combined Bibliography 281
17. List of Contributors 307
18. Index 309