Max Delbruck and Cologne: An Early Chapter of German Mole...
Deichmann, Ute / Wenkel, Simone
The history of molecular biology in Germany is closely linked to the Institute of Genetics in Cologne, the first molecular biological Institute at a German university. Founded in 1959 by the ¿gr¿hysicist and future Nobel laureate Max Delbr¿ck, the Institute was the first in Germany to implement less hierarchical American organizational structures and research habits. The Institute had already gained an excellent international scientific reputa...