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SIDNEY A. BERNHARD, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry.
EDWARD HERBERT, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry.
FRANCIS J. REITHEL, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry.
EDWARD NOVITSKI, Ph.D., Professor of Biology.
JOHN A. SCHELLMAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry.
WILLIAM R. SISTROM, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology.
FRANKLIN W. STAHL, Ph.D., Professor of Biology.
GEORGE STREISINGER, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology.
RAYMOND G. WOLFE, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry.
The Institute of Molecular Biology is a center for research and research
instruction in areas of biology where understanding is found in terms of the
properties of macromolecules, particularly nucleic acids and proteins. Staff members
hold joint appointments in a department (biology, chemistry, or physics).
Current research projects in the Institute are concerned with such topics as
genetic recombination and mutation in bacteria and bacterial viruses, the genetic
control of protein synthesis, the regulation of the rate of protein formation, molecular
structural aspects of biological specificity, biocatalysis, and biological coding.
The Institute sponsors seminars, special lectures, visiting professorships,
and instruction in research, but does not conduct a formal teaching program.
Members of the Institute staff offer courses in their fields of competence through
the departments with which they are affiliated.
Research instruction is offered at both the graduate and postdoctoral levels.
With the approval of the department concerned, graduate students in biology,
chemistry, or physics may do research in the Institute as a part of their programs
leading to graduate degrees. Research advisers may be members either of the Institute
staff or of a departmental faculty.
Institute of Theoretical Science
MARSHALL FIXMAN, Ph.D., Director of Institute of Theoretical Science; Professor
of Chemistry.
ROBERT M. MAlO, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Institute of Theoretical Science;
Associate Professor of Chemistry.
MARVIN E. GIRARDEAU, JR., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics.
TERRELL L. HILL, Ph.D., Research Associate; Professor of Chemistry.
JOEL W. MCCLURE, Ph.D., Research Associate; Associate Professor of Physics.
JOHN L. POWELL, Ph.D., Research Associate; Professor of Physics.
MARTIN L. SAGE, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
GREGORY H. W ANNIER, Ph.D., Research Associate; Professor of Physics.
The Institute of Theoretical Science provides a center for research leading
to the understanding of natural processes in terms of logically constructed conceptual
systems, and to the synthesis of the specialized research of physicists,
biologists, and other natural scientists.
Theoretical science may be defined to include: (1) the discovery and description
of the fundamental laws which govern the behavior of the elementary constituents
of natural systems; (2) the theoretical description of complex systems,
arising through the mutual interaction of a large number of simple systems of
which we have a basic theoretical understanding; and (3) the utilization of the
conceptual and analytic tools of the theoretical scientists in applied research.
Graduate students with adequate preparation in one of the science departments
may elect thesis research in the Institute. The Institute also sponsors postdoctoral
fellowships and visiting professorships.