Alan L Mackay
Articles written in Journal of Biosciences
Volume 28 Issue 5 September 2003 pp 539-546 Perspectives
J D Bernal (1901–1971) in perspective
We must conclude that the sub-title of Bernal’s “The Social Function of Science” — “What science does: what science could do” is still the relevant challenge and indicates Bernal’s chief contribution, besides the foundation of molecular biology to our civilization. It is manifest that resources spent on armaments are a monstrous pathological symptom of our social structure. The ancient problem of “what is property” and what may be “owned” and by whom or by what organs of society is awakening.
Volume 30 Issue 4 September 2005 pp 407-409 Clipboard
J D Bernal and the replication of the genetic material - hindsight on foresight
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