Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking a leave from Caltech, Beadle went to Paris to work with Ephrussi. Their first joint experiment was the delicate feat of transplanting an eye from one minuscule fruit-fly larva to another. After many attempts, an eye took hold and lived, and the two young scientists spent a whole day of celebration at a sidewalk...
...Caltech needed a new head for its now famous Division of Biology. Professor Morgan had retired. Beadle was tapped for the job and accepted, knowing well that he would have to curtail, perhaps abandon, his personal research. Some of his friends felt that a great scientist was being wasted on a routine administrative job, and there was a precedent for their fears in the history of genetics. Mendel himself did nothing of note after he was made abbot...
...Beadle was not wasted. Since becoming chief of Caltech's biologists, he has revealed unexpected talents, including fund raising and speechmaking. His colleagues agree that his greatest talent is his way of encouraging and enhancing his division without visibly running it. He tries to function as a catalyst rather than as organizer, encouraging scientists from different disciplines to take a lively interest in each other's fields. Caltech's Division of Biology is equal to any in the world, and it operates in an atmosphere of amiability spiced with high intellectual excitement. These are Beadle...
...House. In 1953 Beadle married young, handsome Muriel Barnett, a feature writer who still works at her newspaper job on the Los Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle is fond...
...Caltech's Chemist Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on molecular structure, reported that the DNA molecule has a helical (spiral-staircase) structure. Later that year, James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick in England went a step farther. DNA, they said, is a double helix with two spirally rising chains of linked atomic groups and a series of horizontal members, like steps, connecting the two spirals. This molecular model, deduced mostly from X-ray diffraction photos, seemed complex and unlikely, but geneticists rejoiced when they heard about it. It was just what they" needed...