Renato Dulbecco and the new animal virology : medicine, methods, and molecules / Daniel J. Kevles.
Abstract:
'The development of animal virology suggests that what counted most in the evolution of molecular biology was not so much reductionism or anti-reductionism, as the type of laboratory tools and methods that particular investigators found themselves able to employ in practice for the analysis of life processes. At the least, the phage school is cast in a different perspective by an examination of the career of Renato Dulbecco, who was its product and who in the 1950s, as something of its agent, contributed mightily to the transformation of animal virology into a biological science.'
Journal of the history of biology Vol. 26 (1993), 409-442