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George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobel Prize–winning discovery with Edward Tatum that the role of genes is to specify proteins. From 1946 to 1960 he led the Caltech Biology Division, rebuilding it to a powerhouse in molecular biology, and afterwards became a successful President of the University of Chicago. This is the first biography of a giant of genetics, written by two of the field's most distinguished contributors, Paul Berg and Maxine Singer.

Childhood and education, New York City; higher education, New York, Pennsylvania State University, Washington University, St. Louis; postdoctoral research with Arthur Kornberg and Herman Kalckar; research on amino acid activation, tumor viruses, recombinant DNA; Asilomar I conference (1973), recombinant DNA biohazards controversy, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules (1975); commercialization of recombinant DNA and molecular biology; Nobel Prize, 1980; DNAX Research Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Inc., relations with Schering-Plough; Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine, Stanford Medical School; Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert W. Boyer, Peter Lobban, James D. Watson, John Morrow, Joshua Lederberg, and other scientists.

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Low Life Slow Life presents a diverse range of artists and artworks related to Paul McCarthy's memories of his own career. Curated by Paul McCarthy (*1945 in Salt Lake City), the two-part exhibition investigates his life as an artist--from his student years in Salt Lake City and San Francisco during the sixties to his years in Los Angeles from 1970 to the present--with an emphasis on the emergence of alternative performance practices, Conceptual art, and video art. His curatorial selections are eclectic and unconventional, deriving more from his personal recollections than from any historical, objective measure of artistic influence. Packaged as a recreation of a vintage of Tide detergent, this publication has been conceived to serve as an extension of the show. An artwork in itself, the book showcases a vast range of works that have influenced McCarthy's career, presenting a personal map of his individual art history and philosophy.