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ALFRED EZRA MIRSKY
ALFRED EZRA MIRSKY
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in the molecular terms of the chemist. The initial postulates of protoplasmic components as being essentially unclefinable, clispersible, en c!
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The resulting paper marked the end of Mirsky's association with Cohn's research program, since Cohn had become more interested in humanistic studies than in those of laboratory science.
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that other clenaturable proteins, such as serum albumin, can be renaturecI. These results were extenclec!
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Mirsky's first formal paper with Pollister describes the extraction of nucleoproteins from a wide variety of animal cells. Their major approach was the differential use of neutral sodium chIoricle solutions of varying concentrations: physiological saline remover!
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Threads possessing the main cytological features of chromosomes were isolates! from calf thymus lymphocytes en c!
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objectivity are near neighbors." The chemical evidence of the purity of transforming DNA or of an infectious RNA was little better in the late 1980's than it was in the 1950's. Nevertheless, new bodies of data demonstrate the vaTiclity of the views that certain nucleic acids themselves may determine genetic continuity, en c!
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Following retirement from his laboratory in 1964, he server! as librarian of the Rockefeller University from 1965 until 1972.
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art history, his fine collection of art en c! historical objects is at the Rockefeller University.
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, 439-447, with Linus Pauling; "Protein Denaturation," in Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 6 (1938) , 150-163; "Nucleoproteins of Cell Nuclei," in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 28 (1942)
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(New York, 1959-1964~. The Rockefeller University archives have extensive holdings of Mirsky's notebooks, correspondence, and other documents, and supplies a curriculum vitae.
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