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ArticleHistory and philosophy of the life sciences2021

The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century.

Mathias Grote, Lisa Onaga, Angela N H Creager, Soraya de Chadarevian, Daniel Liu, Gina Surita, Sarah E Tracy

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Mathias GroteInstitut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, 10099, Berlin, Germany. mathias.grote@hu-berlin.de.
Lisa OnagaMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Angela N H CreagerDepartment of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
Soraya de ChadarevianUCLA Department of History, 6265 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1473, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4360-7203
Daniel LiuICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Christinenstraße 18/19, Haus 8, 10119, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1119-1589
Gina SuritaDepartment of History, Program in History of Science, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA.
Sarah E TracyTechnoscience Research Unit, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G6, Canada.

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Abstract

This essay considers how scholarly approaches to the development of molecular biology have too often narrowed the historical aperture to genes, overlooking the ways in which other objects and processes contributed to the molecularization of life. From structural and dynamic studies of biomolecules to cellular membranes and organelles to metabolism and nutrition, new work by historians, philosophers, and STS scholars of the life sciences has revitalized older issues, such as the relationship of life to matter, or of physicochemical inquiries to biology. This scholarship points to a novel molecular vista that opens up a pluralist view of molecularizations in the twentieth century and considers their relevance to current science.

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HistoriographyCultural DiversityHistory, 20th CenturyMolecular BiologyChemistryHistoriographyMolecular BiologyMolecular GeneticsMolecularizationNutritionPhysical ScienceStructural Biology

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