George Edward Pake

George Edward Shuttleworth

his name is not familiar. To many members of the medical profession in this country, even the junior ones, he was a well-known and revered figure, for, although he had outlived most of his contemporaries, he continued long after his retirement to attend and speak at meetings relating to the subject to which he had devoted his life. By his passing, the medical profession, and psychiatry in parti...

Edward and George Phillips ’ Pottery at Longport

Ceramics marked with the Phillips name are frequently found in estate auctions, antiques shops, and historical societies in New England. While transfer printed wares predominate, the firm produced a range of earthenwares, including flow blue, creamware, edged ware, painted pearlware, plain white ironstone, and luster. Printed pieces were often marked with a transfer containing the name of the p...

"Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" (1941), by George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum

George Wells Beadle [7] and Edward Lawrie Tatum's 1941 article "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora [8]" detailed their experiments on how genes [9] regulated chemical reactions, and how the chemical reactions in turn affected development in the organism. Beadle and Tatum experimented on Neurospora, a type of bread mold, and they concluded that mutations to genes [9] affected...

Biochemical Genetics and Molecular Biology: The Contributions of George Beadle and Edward Tatum.

SEVENTY-FIVE years ago, George Beadle and Edward Tatum published their method for producing nutritional mutants inNeurospora crassa. Their study signaled the start of a new era in experimental biology, but its significance is generally misunderstood today. The importance of the work is usually summarized as providing support for the “one gene– one enzyme” hypothesis, but its major value actuall...

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