PMID- 25931208
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160302
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1573-0387 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-5010 (Linking)
VI  - 48
IP  - 4
DP  - 2015 Nov
TI  - "A Cold Spring Harbor in Europe." EURATOM, UNESCO and the Foundation of EMBO.
PG  - 539-73
LID - 10.1007/s10739-015-9408-5 [doi]
AB  - This article explores the problem of the foundation of the European Molecular 
      Biology Organization (EMBO), by reconstructing a broader institutional framework, 
      which includes other international actors--EURATOM, UNESCO and the International 
      Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics (ILGB) in Naples--and a relevant, but still 
      neglected figure, the Italian geneticist Adriano Buzzati-Traverso (1913-1983). 
      The article considers the tension between centralized and federal models of 
      organization in the field of life sciences not just as an EMBO internal 
      controversy, but rather as a structural issue of European scientific cooperation 
      in fundamental biology in the early 1960s. Along with EMBO, the article analyzes 
      in particular the EURATOM Biology Division Program and the constitution of UNESCO 
      International Cell Research Organization (ICRO). Adriano Buzzati-Traverso, as 
      founder of ILGB and scientific consultant of EURATOM and UNESCO, played a crucial 
      role in the complex negotiation which ultimately led to the foundation of EMBO. A 
      synchronic treatment of ILGB, EURATOM, UNESCO-ICRO and EMBO opens a window on the 
      early 1960s institutional configuration of molecular biology in Europe, showing 
      how it basically incorporated the "Cold Spring Harbor" decentralized model rather 
      than reproducing the "CERN" centralized model.
FAU - Cassata, Francesco
AU  - Cassata F
AD  - Dipartimento di Antichita Filosofia Storia e Geografia (DAFIST), University of 
      Genoa, Via Balbi 6, 16126, Genoa, Italy. francesco.cassata@unige.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Historical Article
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Germany
TA  - J Hist Biol
JT  - Journal of the history of biology
JID - 0202503
MH  - Biological Science Disciplines/*history/organization & administration
MH  - Europe
MH  - History, 20th Century
MH  - Molecular Biology/*history
MH  - Societies, Scientific/*history/organization & administration
MH  - United Nations/history
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adriano Buzzati-Traverso
OT  - EMBO
OT  - EURATOM
OT  - John C. Kendrew
OT  - Molecular Biology
OT  - UNESCO
EDAT- 2015/05/02 06:00
MHDA- 2016/03/05 06:00
CRDT- 2015/05/02 06:00
PHST- 2015/05/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/05/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/03/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s10739-015-9408-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10739-015-9408-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Hist Biol. 2015 Nov;48(4):539-73. doi: 10.1007/s10739-015-9408-5.