Horace Freeland Judson
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| Born | 21 April 1931 |
| Died | 6 May 2011 (aged 80) Baltimore, Maryland, US |
| Occupation | Historian |
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Horace Freeland Judson (April 21, 1931 – May 6, 2011)[5][6] was a journalist and later with more prominence a historian of molecular biology including authoring several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.[7]
Life and career
Horace Freeland Judson was born on 21 April 1931, in Manhattan, New York. He contracted
The Eighth Day of Creation arose out of Judson's acquaintance with
He appears in Dont Look Back, D. A. Pennebaker's documentary film about Bob Dylan, in which he is subjected to what he believed to be a contrived tirade of abuse from Dylan. During Judson's interview, Dylan launches into a verbal attack on Time magazine, and Judson himself. The film's producer Pennebaker does not believe the tirade was planned, but notes that Dylan backed off, not wanting to come across as being too cruel. However, Judson believed the confrontation was contrived to make the sequence more entertaining. "That evening", said Judson, "I went to the concert. My opinion then and now was that the music was unpleasant, the lyrics inflated, and Dylan, a self-indulgent whining show off".[12]
Personal life
Judson's first marriage ended in divorce. His second wife, Penelope Jones, died in 1993.
Publications
Articles
- Judson, H. (1975). "Fearful of science: After Copernicus, after Darwin, after Freud comes molecular biology. Is nothing sacred?". Harper's. 250 (1498): 32+. PMID 11664517.
- Judson, H. (1975). "Fearful of science: Who shall watch the scientists?". Harper's. 250 (1501): 70–72+. PMID 11661234.
- Judson, H. (1980). "Reflections on the historiography of molecular biology". Minerva. 18 (3): 369–421. S2CID 46542692.
- Judson, H. (1983). "Thumbprints in our clay: Unraveling the controversy over genetic engineering". New Republic. Vol. 189, no. 12–13. pp. 12–17. PMID 11651757.
- Judson, H.; MacKay, I. (1992). "History in the Bay of Naples". Immunology Today. 13 (11): 459–461. PMID 1362059.
- Judson, H. (1993). "Frederick Sanger, Erwin Chargaff, and the metamorphosis of specificity". Gene. 135 (1–2): 19–23. PMID 8276259.
- Judson, H. (1994). "Structural transformations of the sciences and the end of peer review". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 272 (2): 92–94. PMID 8015139.
- Judson, H. (1995). "The world we have lost". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 758 (1): 427–440. S2CID 36632778.
- Judson, H. F. (2001). "Talking about the genome". Nature. 409 (6822): 769. S2CID 4766658.
- Judson, H. F. (2003). ""The Greatest Surprise for Everyone" – Notes on the 50th Anniversary of the Double Helix". New England Journal of Medicine. 348 (17): 1712–1714. PMID 12711749.
- Judson, H. F. (2004). "First among Equals – Francis Crick". New England Journal of Medicine. 351 (9): 858. PMID 15329422.
- Judson, H. F. (2006). "The theorist". Nature. 443 (7114): 917–918. doi:10.1038/443917a.
- Judson, Horace Freeland (14 November 2006). "The Glimmering Promise of Gene Therapy". Technology Review.
Books
- Heroin Addiction: What Americans Can Learn from the English Experience (1975). Vintage Books, ISBN 0-394-72017-2
- The Search for Solutions (1982). Holt Rinehart & Winston, ISBN 0-03-043771-7
- Science in Crisis at the Millennium (1999). New York Academy of Sciences, ISBN 1-57331-106-5
See also
- List of books about the politics of science
- Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
References
- ISBN 0-87969-478-5.
- OCLC 54694616
- ^ "Review: 'The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science'", Library Bookwatch, The Gale Group, retrieved 30 March 2009 [dead link]
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Alan Price (1 February 2005), "Book Review : 'The great betrayal : Fraud in science'", J Clin Invest, 115 (2): 198, PMC 546437
- PMC 3134443.
- ^ a b c Grimes, William (10 May 2011). "Horace Freeland Judson, Science Historian, Dies at 80". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ "The Great Betrayal: A Book Review" Archived 25 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine, 24 January 2005.
- ^ "American Philosophical Society". Archived from the original on 5 July 2008.
- ^ "Talking about the Genome Project". Centennial Lecture by H.F. Judson. Rockefeller University. 17 April 2000. Archived from the original on 1 December 2005. Retrieved 28 November 2006.
- ^ Judson, H. F. The Eighth Day of Creation (1979), p. 10–11
- ^ "Horace Freeland Judson Collection (1968–78)". American Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 27 September 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2006.
- ISBN 0-552-99929-6.
- ^ "Grace Judson".
- ^ "Nicholas Judson". www.nicholasjudson.com.
- TheGuardian.com. 25 May 2011.
External links
- His daughter reminisces as she clears out his house: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-task/</ref>
