Life Sciences

Collections
The Field Museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. These objects form the core of the Museum's collections which have grown through world-wide expeditions, exchange, purchase, and gifts to more than twenty million specimens. The collections form the foundation of the Museum's exhibition, research and education programs, which are further informed by a world-class natural history library of more than 250,000 volumes.

This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below. For more contextual information, for instance about the Islamic world, check out these web sites.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Harold has given me a relatively simple task of essentially repeating my little book, The Double Helix, and so I prepared some slides from the book, the pictures in it, and I will race through the story and then make a few comments at the end, seeing the discovery after 40 years.

The origin of the work goes back to my days as a student at the University of Chicago where I believe it was the fall of 1945, I read a little book called What Is Life? by the German physicist Erwin Schrodinger, who had received the Nobel Prize for his work in wave mechanics. Schrodinger said the essence of life was essentially heredity, and the key problem was, "What is the gene?" And in particular, "How can you copy a gene?" The gene must carry very specific instructions, and there must be some marvelous trick by which you can exactly copy the structure of a gene. So that inspired me, the following term at the University of Chicago, to go to the lectures by a very famous geneticist named Sewall Wright, who gave a course entitled Physiological Genetics. From that I came away with the feeling there were three problems

On January 1, 1934, The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened to the public. The Museum's hands-on approach to science and technology, combined with the Fels Planetarium, made the Institute a popular spot. As the end of the twentieth century drew near, major changes were beginning at the Institute. In May of 1990, The Mandell Center, Tuttleman Omniverse Theater (now known as the Tuttleman IMAX Theater), and Musser Theater opened, adding dramatically to the size and appeal of The Franklin Institute. The new exhibits, exciting Omnimax films, and interactive presentations continued the Institute's long tradition of making science and technology fun.
Today, more than one hundred and seventy five years after the Institute's founding, The Franklin Institute Science Museum continues to offer new and exciting access to science and technology in ways that would both amaze and delight Mister Benjamin Franklin.

The Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding and preserving biological diversity and cultural heritage.

The mission of FASEB is to enhance the ability of biomedical and life scientists to improve, through their research, the health, well-being, and productivity of all people. FASEB is a coalition of independent Member Societies that serve the interests of biomedical and life scientists, particularly those related to public policy issues. FASEB facilitates coalition activities among Member Societies and disseminates information on biological research through scientific conferences and publications. FASEB also offers Member Societies headquarters facilities, and operational and logistic support.

Collections
The Library has over one million volumes; the journal collection contains approximately 13,000 titles of which 1,450 are electronic. The heavily used working collection consists of FAO documentation, books and serials in FAO subject fields, a comprehensive reference collection and specialized Branch Library collections in Fisheries and Forestry.The library also includes the IIA Institutional Memory and Rare Books collection.

Subject Coverage
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Rural Development, Plant Production and Protection, Animal Production and Health, Agricultural Machinery, Agro-industries, Agro-forestry, Forestry, Fisheries, Sustainable Development, Statistics, Agricultural Economics and other related subjects.

An insect is an air breathing animal with a hard jointed exoskeleton, and in the adult a body divided into three parts, the head with one pair of antennae, the thorax which carries three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings, and the abdomen which contains the guts and reproductive organs. A fuller discription of the various bits that make up an insect can be found in the Basic Anatomy file.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Milestones in EMBL's history

1962 Leo Szilard, Victor F. Weisskopf, James D. Watson, & John Kendrew meet in Geneva to discuss possibility of establishing an international laboratory for molecular biology.
1963 Scientists at a professional meeting in Ravello, Italy decide to pursue the idea of the laboratory. They form the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in order to realise this goal. International fellowships and advanced courses are added to the EMBO agenda.
1968 The European Molecular Biology Conference is founded, associating 14 governments with EMBO, providing the organisation with stable funding and scientific independence.

In 1990 Princeton University divided Biology into the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Biology. Since then we have grown and now consist of 18 faculty, approximately 35 graduate students and about 100 undergraduate concentrators. Our offices and laboratories are located in Guyot and Eno Halls, but our research often takes us to field sites in Africa, Asia and parts of North, Central and South America.