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Retrospect Leonard Ornstein Cell Research Laboratory , Mount Sinai School of Medicine
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ornstein, Leonard Pollister, W. Schrader, Lf Barth, Frédéric Ryan |
| Copyright Year | 1987 |
| Abstract | Viewed at some distance, and averaged over time, the progress of science, like that of biological evolution, seems steady and inexorable. To understand biological evolution, which is almost entirely dependent upon the exploitation of accidents, it is helpful to understand discovery and invention, the engines of science and vice versa. When examined in detail, periods of stasis are followed by saltatory spurts of progress, as many new niches can suddenly be exploited with new experimental and intellectual tools. In accounts of many scientific discoveries, the exploitation of opportunistic serendipity is artificially made to appear planned, and progress is made to appear quite steady. Movement in many areas of my work has been characterized by periods of stasis, interrupted by spurts of progress, and directions in my scientific career have often been set by circumstantial accidents, of whom happened to know at a particular time, by changes in the available mechanisms for support of education and research, and even by my nonprofessional diversions. So you may find interest in anecdotal ramblings about some of the electrophoretic links in my career. I will review threads of coincidence from the 1940's to the present, leading to and from the "discoveries" of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and controlled "steady-statestacking". |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://rci.rutgers.edu/~piecze/OrnsteinGelFractNucleicAcidPieczenikRef.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pipeline.com/~lenornst/Tenuous.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
