TY - JOUR
T1 - H. N. Martin and W. K. brooks
T2 - Exemplars for American biology?
AU - Maienschein, Jane
N1 - Funding Information:
I gratefully acknowledge the support of NSF grant #SES-8309388 and of the Ari zona State University for research related to this project, and I thank Brother Edward for organizing this symposium and Joy Erickson for typing this paper. In addition, I particularly appreciate the exchange of resources and ideas with Keith Benson as we have worked on many overlapping problems.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - The Johns Hopkins University offered the first modern, American, research-oriented programin biology when it opened in 1876. The program included both physiological and morphological work, so that students could choose either for their advanced degrees. Physiologists studied with Henry Newell Martin, morphologists with William Keith Brooks. Yet students took courses in both areas, and the unique exposure to two lines of research and to two very different sorts of teachers made the Johns Hopkins program exceptional. This paper outlines the dual character of biology at Hopkins, and the particular contributions of both Martin and Brooks. It also argues that the impact of that unique dual offering on four of the more famous students, E. B. Wilson, T. H. Morgan, E. G. Conklin, and R. G. Harrison, strongly influenced the successful and progressive program of research that each chose.
AB - The Johns Hopkins University offered the first modern, American, research-oriented programin biology when it opened in 1876. The program included both physiological and morphological work, so that students could choose either for their advanced degrees. Physiologists studied with Henry Newell Martin, morphologists with William Keith Brooks. Yet students took courses in both areas, and the unique exposure to two lines of research and to two very different sorts of teachers made the Johns Hopkins program exceptional. This paper outlines the dual character of biology at Hopkins, and the particular contributions of both Martin and Brooks. It also argues that the impact of that unique dual offering on four of the more famous students, E. B. Wilson, T. H. Morgan, E. G. Conklin, and R. G. Harrison, strongly influenced the successful and progressive program of research that each chose.
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U2 - 10.1093/icb/27.3.773
DO - 10.1093/icb/27.3.773
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:14844299126
SN - 1540-7063
VL - 27
SP - 773
EP - 783
JO - Integrative and comparative biology
JF - Integrative and comparative biology
IS - 3
ER -