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Experimental embryology, which was founded in the 1880s and came of age in the first decades of this century, became the foundation for modern cellular and developmental biology. One of embryology's uncontested leaders was the German biologist Hans Spemann. Professor Hamburger presents a critical account of Spemann's Nobel Prize in 1935. The author traces the different lines of research which emerged from Spemann's seminal discovery and carries the history up to the 1950s when classical embryology was superseded by molecular-developmental biology. Hamburger is uniquely qualified to write this volume: he spent almost a decade in Spemann's laboratory, first as a graduate student and later as a research colleague. As a mature and distinguished scientist working in the United States, Hamburger played a crucial role in establishing the field of developmental neurobiology.
Contents
- Introduction
- History of the Organizer Experiment
- The Organizer Experiment (1924)
- Further Explorations of the Organizer and of Induction (1925-1931)
- The Mechanisms of Induction - The Turning Point
- New Approaches to problems of Determination and Induction - The Ascendance of J. Holtfreter (1931-1940)
- In-Vitro Isolation Experiments (1938, 1965)
- The Fusion of Biochemistry and Entwicklungsmechanik
- Regional Induction - Specificity of Heterogenenous Inductors
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Biography / Memoir Monograph
By: Viktor Hamburger(Author)
208 pages, 2 b/w photos, 48 b/w illustrations
"This is an extremely lucid, authoritative, thorough and well-illustrated account of the experiments and how they came into being, written by a most distinguished and much-respected embryologist [...] It ought to provide for today's up-and-coming biologist one of the most challenging and surprising reads he is likely to come across."
– Times Higher Education Supplement
"This is a brilliant book by perhaps the only person who could have written it, lively, informative and, above all, humane."
– Biologist
"This is a fascinating book. Dr Hamburger has done a superb job, paying great attention to detail and yet making the book extremely readable and enjoyable. A scientifically informative, yet eminently readable, account of the days of classical experimental embryology. An essential reference work."
– Trends in Neurosciences
"Hamburger's account of Spemann and the organizer is a masterpiece. Hamburger does a superb job of explaining the experiments, setting them in historical context and tracing their subsequent experiemental and analytical history. Anyone with the faintest interest in developmental biology should read this book. It is an eye-opening inspiration."
– Nature
"[...] an admirable blend of scientific and biographical discourse, to chart the key experiments in the careers of Hans Spemann and his students [...] an invaluable book for scholarly minded students of animal development."
– Trends in Genetics
"[...] a lucid and interesting account of a critical period in scientific history. It has a special fascination because it is written by a participant who can not only tell us what happened, but also what it felt like at the time."
– Medical History
