Chances and Choices: Cold Spring Harbor 1944–1955

Abstract

The author describes the circumstances and events that led her to begin graduate work in genetics at Columbia University in 1941 and to spend the summer of 1944 and the years 1945–1955 at the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor. She then recalls incidents and recounts anecdotes meant to convey something of the atmosphere of that place during those memorable years.