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WEAVER, Warren (1894 – 1978)

WEAVER, Warren (1894 – 1978)

1894 – 1978

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1938 CE

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Molecular biology: origin of the term.

WEAVER, Warren (1894 – 1978)
WEAVER, Warren (1894 – 1978)

Perhaps the only mathematician to name a new biological discipline, in 1938, as Director of the Natural Sciences Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, Weaver coined the term molecular biology to describe the use of …