Dissertation
C.B. van Niel and the Culture of Microbiology, 1920-1965
Dissertation submitted March 12, 1999, University of California, Berkeley
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Introduction (pdf)
Chapter I. A Grand Symphony of Pure and Applied Science: The Laboratory for Microbiology at Delft (pdf)
Chapter II. Ideals and Experiments: C.B. van Niel and the Jacques Loeb Laboratory, 1929-1936 (pdf)
Chapter III. Culturing Microbiology, 1930-1945 (pdf)
Chapter IV. Microbiology’s Moment, 1945-1955 (pdf)
Chapter V. The Bacterium as Organism and Instrument (pdf)