@article{95ff754dd8fc4fd992c5c8ef5bf0989c,
title = "Essay Review: Building Biology across the Atlantic",
author = "Creager, {Angela N.H.}",
note = "Funding Information: European biologists competed successfully for these funds. Yet even in the era of the Marshall Plan, British and French scientists had to be politically astute in their use of foreign resources, scientific or financial, so that they would not seem unduly dependent. De Chadarevian points to an incident in which the MRC denied Perutz permission to accept a Rockefeller Foundation grant to visit American laboratories, expecting more self-sufficiency from British scientists. At the Pasteur Institute, Jacques Monod and Fran{\c c}ois Jacob made excellent use of their American connections and collaborators – as well as U.S. granting agencies. Yet even as they relied on foreign resources, they managed to build a distinctive research program that appeared culturally indigenous – the celebrated “French” style of molecular biology. The ways in which postwar molecular biologists succeeded in constructing robust national “traditions,” in which foreign (especially American) elements were effaced, remains an intriguing theme in both excellent studies, and adds another dimension to a longstanding historiographical interest in the transnational character of this “ultradiscipline.”8",
year = "2003",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1023/B:HIST.0000004574.50758.19",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "36",
pages = "579--589",
journal = "Journal of the History of Biology",
issn = "0022-5010",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
number = "3",
}