Genesis of the Salk Institute : the epic of its founders / Suzanne Bourgeois.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

xxxiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.

Prologue : the greatest generation -- Before and after ann arbor -- Doctor Polio meets Doctor Atomic -- Enter Leo Szilard -- Atoms in biology -- What was it about La Jolla? -- The Pasteur connection -- The spirit of Paris -- Our dear Kahn Building -- Pioneering -- The McCloy boys -- Biology in human affairs -- A Napoleon from Byzantium -- Epilogue : fifty years later.