Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1 Growing Up in New York City, Medical School and the United States Navy 1
Chapter 2 Learning from the Masters - The NIH and the Ochoa Laboratory 17
Chapter 3 The Cori Laboratory - And a Return to the NIH 35
Chapter 4 Washington University 53
Chapter 5 The Lure of Nucleic Acid Enzymology 69
Chapter 6 The Discovery of DNA Polymerase 85
Chapter 7 Stanford University Medical School 97
Chapter 8 The Stanford Department of Biochemistry 131
Chapter 9 Life in the Test Tube? 159
Chapter 10 Like Father Like Sons 173
Chapter 11 Spores - A Brief Interlude 193
Chapter 12 DNA Replication - The Holy Grail 199
Chapter 13 Polyphosphate 225
Chapter 14 A Life of Writing 231
Chapter 15 In Support of Basic Science 255
Chapter 16 Commercial Ventures and the Founding of DNAX 267
Chapter 17 A Life Well Lived 285
Appendices 291
Index 297
