Gunther S Stent was Graduate Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
10 Facts About Gunther Stent
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Gunther Stent's surname was changed following his emigration to the US in 1940, where he went to live in Chicago.
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Gunther Stent received his BS and PhD from the University of Illinois.
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In 1949, Gunther Stent joined the small group of phage workers under Max Delbruck at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
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Informal discussions among these workers on the progress of their research led to a book by Stent entitled "Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses" which was a lucid account of the state of accomplishments in the field up to 1963.
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Later, in his memoirs, Gunther Stent described some of his activities and interactions with others of the group.
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Gunther Stent was perhaps most generally known for his works on the progress of science, especially his 1969 lectures at Berkeley published as The Coming of the Golden Age.
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Gunther Stent lectured in the molecular biology portion of Biology 1 at UC Berkeley.
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Gunther Stent had a very unusual lecture style; he introduced the major experiments that advanced the field of molecular biology in chronological order.
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Gunther Stent was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.