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Show 23 Karl Gordon Lark August 2015 Szilard also realized that biology. In retrospect, I realize that Szilard decided that I did not although I had an education, it had no focus. At that lunch, Cold Spring Harbor and take need a job but that during the summer I should either go to s course. After several visits to the phage course, or go to Pacific Grove and take Van Niel' Harbor and I wrote to the Szilard-Novick lab, they decided that I should go to Cold Spring of work in order to pay the Demerec applying to the course and asking for some type there were no jobs available, but tuition and to support myself. His reply informed me that and taught the that he had forwarded my application to Mark Adams, who organized the course and into me Adams accepting course. A week later, I received a letter from I had a latent interest in offering me a job as his lab tech for the summer. COLD SPRING HARBOR to La Guardia. My beginning of June, I took my first airplane flight-from Midway the promise that my summer job would allow me to parents were willing to pay the fare on in Szilard may have talked to my father. It was a night flight pay them back, and of course, moon the the thrill of taking off and watching a Constellation, and I can still remember remains a blur, but somehow I found my shining on the clouds. The landing in La Guardia at and I remember waiting for and taking a train that stopped way to the LIRR in Flushing, walked From there, I the Cold Spring Harbor Station (not Huntington Station, or Syosset). the laboratory. My to and across the causeway (with my suit case) around the inner lakes, clear in my memory, with first view of the inner lakes and of the laboratory remain very seemed to be singing the lake and church shining in the morning sun and birds that first week is very hazy. Most surprising, is everywhere. Otherwise, my recollection of that It was Symposium week, that I have no memory of my first meeting with Mark Adams. the big meeting room in and I attended many of the sessions, sitting in the back of was a frequent Blackford. Of the speakers I remember only Linderstrom Lang, who and talked I and Adams agreed that I should not discussant of various papers. I know that and that during the course the phage course, begin work in the laboratory until I had taken At the I would be working with T5, the object of his research. or what one might call physical biochemist with an appreciation for genetics, ever met. He loved the population biology, of phage. He was the best teacher I had of his love and colleagues elegance in science and in phage he had found an object worthy the that he could enjoy. As I was to learn later, he straddled two worlds exemplified by club on the other. Because of the work phage course on the one hand, and by the enzyme the genetic material of Avery, McLeod and McCarthy, he already believed that DNA was and he also believed that phage presented a unique tool with which to investigate protein Mark was a biochemistry and For the was an structure. paired me with Joe Bertani. In this, he used great insight. the course, act of the utmost kindness. I was by far the youngest person taking phage course, Mark 37 It and |
