Gunther Stent

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Gunther Stent (28 March 1924 – 12 June 2008 [cite news
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His introductory textbook, "Molecular Genetics; an Introductory Narrative" has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.

He 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"

Publications

Books on Molecular biology

*Stent, G. S. (1998). "Nazis, Women, and Molecular Biology: Memoirs of a Lucky Self-hater". Kensington, Calif: Briones Books.
*Muller, K. J., Nicholls, J. G., & Stent, G. S. (1981). "Neurobiology of the Leech". Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
*Stent, G. S. (1971). "Molecular Genetics; an Introductory Narrative". San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
**Italian translation: Stent, G. S., & Stent, G. S. (1977). "Genetica molecolare". Bologna, Italy: Zanichelli.
**Russian translation: Stent, G. S., Calendar, R., & Stent, G. S. (1981). "Molekuli︠a︡rnai︠a︡ genetika". Moskva: Izd-vo MIR.
**Spanish translation: Stent, G. S. (1981). "Genética molecular". Barcelona: Omega.
**Japanese translation: Stent, G. S., Calendar, R., & Nagano, K. (1983). 分子遺伝学. Bunshi idengaku 岩波書店.
*Stent, G. S. 1963. "Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses." WH Freeman and Co., San Francisco, CA. OCLC 268815

Books edited

*John Cairns, G. Stent, and J. D. Watson , eds. 2007. "Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (40th anniversary edition)". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, ISBN 0-87969-800-4
*Cairns, J., G. Stent, and J. D. Watson. 1992. "Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology (expanded edition)". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 25872929
*Cairns, J., G. Stent, and J. D. Watson. 1966. "Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. OCLC 712215
**German translation: Cairns, J., Geissler, E., Stent, G. S., Thomas-Petersein, G., & Watson, J. D. (1972). "Phagen und die Entwicklung der Molekularbiologie" (Phages and the origins of molecular biology, [German] .) Hrsg. v. John Cairns.
*Watson, J. D., & Stent, G. S. (1980). "The Double Helix: a Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA". New York: Norton.
*Stent, G. S. (1978). "Morality as a biological phenomenon: report of the Dahlem Workshop on Biology and Morals", Berlin 1977, November 28 to December 2. Life Sciences Research Report, 9. Berlin: Dahlem Konferenzen.

Books on Philosophy of science

*Stent, G. S. (2002). 'Paradoxes of free will'. "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society", v. 92, pt. 6. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
*Delbrück, M., & Stent, G. S. (1986). "Mind from matter? an essay on evolutionary epistemology". Palo Alto, Calif: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
**German translation: Delbrück, M., Fischer, E. P., & Stent, G. S. (1986). "Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit über die Evolution des Erkennens". Hamburg: Rasch und Röhring Verlag.
**Spanish translation: Delbrück, M., Stent, S. G., & Casadesús, J. (1989). "Mente y materia ensayo de epistemología evolutiva". Alianza Universidad, 616. Madrid: Alianza.
*Stent, G. S., & Ogawa, M. (1981). 真理>と悟り : 科学の形而上学と東洋哲学 Shinri to satori kagaku no keijijōgaku to tōyō tetsugaku. 朝日出版社, Tōkyō: Asahishuppansha.
*Stent, G. S. (1980). "Morality as a biological phenomenon the pre-suppositions of sociobiological research". Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Stent, G. S. (1978). "Paradoxes of progress". San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
**Spanish translation: Stent, G. S. (1986). "Las paradojas del progreso". Barcelona: Salvat.
*Stent, G. S. (1969). "The coming of the Golden Age; a view of the end of progress". Garden City, N.Y.: Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press.
**French translation: Stent, G. S., & Bourdet, C. (1973). "L'Avènement de l'âge d'or". L'humanité au carrefour de son évolution [Paris] : Fayard.

Other media

*Stent, G. S. (1915). Gunther S. Stent papers.

References

* Elvee, R. Q. (1992). "The end of science? attack and defense". Lanham, Md: University Press of America.

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