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1923
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Jacques Loeb, 1923
Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center
Awareness of the chemical mechanisms of biological regulation and specificity was certainly an important factor in the formulation of medical research during the early days of The Rockefeller Institute. Paradoxically, however, chemistry came to dominate the intellectual atmosphere of the Institute, not through the achievements of the professional chemists, important as those achievements were, nor ever through the preoccupations of the physicians concerned with the chemical aspects of physiological processes and of hormone, enzyme, or drug action, but through the vigorous personality of Jacques Loeb – a general biologist instant on promoting a philosophical theory of life based on physiochemical determinism. (R. Dubos. The Professor, The Institute, and DNA)
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Jacques Loeb