"Uncharacteristically for biology, s were very much part of the formative studies of that were designed and executed by luminaries such as , , and . Of these, DelbrĂĽck was a physicist, and papers from the early days of phage biology (certainly those with his name attached) reveal quantitative thinking that helped build intuition regarding the dynamics that could be seen at scales far larger than those at which the actual events were unfolding. These early studies provided the foundation for subsequent diversification of the study of phage: the basic concepts of what happens subsequent to infection, experimental protocols for inferring quantitative rates from time-series data, and methods for interpreting and disentangling alternative possibilities underlying the as-yet-unseen actions taking place at micro- and nanoscale (DelbrĂĽck 1946; Lwoff 1953)."
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Joshua Weitz
(born 1975) is an American professor of biology. In 2017 he was elected a fellow of the .
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