@article{a2b3a8cdf17c4ce9920d431aeefe6a2e,
title = "The paradox of the phage group: Essay review",
author = "Creager, {Angela N.H.}",
note = "Funding Information: 23 Due to Delbr{\"u}ck{\textquoteright}s strong backing, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis gave Watson a postdoctoral fellowship after his Merck National Research Council Fellowship was cut short in 1952 because of his decision to leave Copenhagen for Cambridge. See Watson, 1968, p. 66; McElheny, 2003, p. 46; Olby, 1994 [1974], p. 378. 24 Kevles, 1993, p. 421. 25 For a fuller elaborations of this point, Creager, 2002; Creager et al., 2007. 26 Beatty, 1991. Funding Information: First, there was the fact that bacteriophages are viruses, and virus research received substantial funding, both private and public, in the mid-century decades. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (known best by its annual fundraiser, the March of Dimes) and the American Cancer Society supported virus research substantially even before the federal government began to fund basic biomedical research at a high level. In fact, as I have argued elsewhere, voluntary health agencies played a crucial role in using the politics of dread disease to forge public support for basic research.21 This was not incidental to the development of bacteriophage research at Caltech. Emory Ellis{\textquoteright}s project on phage, which Delbr{\"u}ck joined in 1938, was aimed at understanding the role of viruses in cancer.22 After Delbr{\"u}ck returned to Caltech as a faculty member in 1946, his bacteriophage project was supported by the National Foundation for",
year = "2010",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s10739-010-9226-8",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "43",
pages = "183--193",
journal = "Journal of the History of Biology",
issn = "0022-5010",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}