Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Molecular Biology (A New Biology?) -- Rockefeller Foundation: Knowledge and Cultural Hegemony -- Caltech: Engineering and Consensus -- Molecular Vision of Life -- CHAPTER 1:"Social Control": Rockefeller Foundation's Agenda in the Human Sciences, 1913-1933 -- Salvation through Experts -- Taming the Savage -- Toward a "New Science of Man" -- CHAPTER 2:Technological Frontier: Southern California and the Emergence of Life Science at Caltech -- Machine in the Pacific Garden, 1900-1930 -- The Cooperative Ideal: Toward a Life Science at Caltech -- CHAPTER 3: Visions and Realities: The Biology Division in the Morgan Era -- Morgan and the New Biology: A Problem of Service Role -- Contradictory Elements -- INTERLUDE I: Protein Paradigm -- Heredity and the Protein View of Life -- Chemistry of Proteins during the 1930s: Theories and Technologies -- CHAPTER 4: From Flies to Molecules: Physiological Genetics During Morgan Era -- Jack Schultz: A Bridge to the Phenotype -- Beadle, Ephrussi, and the Physiology of Gene Action -- The Riddle of Life: Max Delbrück and Phage Genetics -- Nascent Trends: Toward Giant Protein Molecules -- CHAPTER 5: Convergence of Goals: From Physical Chemistry to Bio-Organic Chemistry, 1930-1940 -- Gates Chemical Laboratory, 1930 -- Vital Processes: Pauling and Weaver -- Crellin Laboratory: Nascent Trends -- CHAPTER 6: Spoils of War: Immunochemistry and Serological Genetics, 1940-1945 -- Terra Incognita: Shift to Immunology -- Problem of Antibody Synthesis -- Science at War -- Terra Firma: 1944-1945 -- CHAPTER 7: Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech -- New Biological System -- Selling Pure Science in Wartime -- Beadle's Return to Caltech -- INTERLUDE II: At a Crossroads: Shaping of Postwar Science.

Rockefeller Foundation and the New World Order -- Designing "Big Science": Caltech's "Magnificent Plan" -- CHAPTER 8: Molecular Empire (1946-1953) -- Life in a Black Box: The Rise of Delbrück's Phage School -- Key Team Member: Delbrück and the Phage Cult -- Protein Victory, Pure and Applied -- EPILOGUE -- Conclusion -- Key to Archival Sources -- Index -- Notes.