The Replicon: Thirty Years Later
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I came to the United States for the first time in 1953, at the very beginning of my scientific life, for the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology organized by Max Delbrück. I had met him the year before, at a meeting on phage at the Abbaye de Royaumont, close to Paris. Delbrück had invited me to the Symposium on viruses he was preparing. His idea was to gather virologists studying plant and animal viruses, along with phage specialists, in an effort to extend to the viruses of higher organisms the methods and principles derived from the study of phage. I gave a paper on lysogeny in which I reported on UV induction of phage development and immunity of lysogenic bacteria. There were many good talks at the Symposium, several new ideas. However, the star attraction was not a work on viruses. It was Jim Watson's description of the...
