Reconceiving the gene : Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics / Frederic Lawrence Holmes ; edited by William C. Summers.

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2006], ©2006.

ix, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-329) and index.

Classical mendelian genetics -- Genetics and the phage biologists -- The physicist becomes a phage biologist -- To Paris and back -- Teaching and research at Purdue -- Entering the rII region -- Crossing into the fine structure -- Is gene a dirty word? -- The survival of the "gene".