Volume 1
The genes of men and molds / George W. Beadle
Viruses / Sir Macfarlane Burnet
How antibiotics are made / Sir Macfarlane Burnet
The alarm reaction / P. C. Constantinides and Niall Carey
The structure of the hereditary material / F. H. C. Crick
The genetic basis of evolution / Theodosius Dobzhansky
Proteins / Paul Doty
Steroids / Louis F. Fieser
Rebuilding a virus / Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
Proteins / Joseph S. Fruton
What is memory? / Ralph W. Gerard
The fertilization of flowers / Verne Grant
"The great ravelled knot" / George W. Gray
Cortisone and ACTH / George W. Gray
Enzymes in teams / David E. Green
The metabolism of fats / David E. Green
The gene / Norman H. Horowitz
Transformed bacteria / Rollin D. Hotchkiss and Esther Weiss
The contraction of muscle / H. E. Huxley
The nerve impulse / Bernhard Katz
The language of the bees / August Krogh
Darwin's finches / David Lack
How is a protein made? / K. U. Linderstrom-Lang
The T2 mystery / Salvador E. Luria
Wheat / Paul C. Mangelsdorf
The mystery of corn / Paul C. Mangelsdorf
Cell division / Daniel Mazia
The chemistry of heredity / A. E. Mirsky
Radiation and human mutation / H. J. Muller
Pleasure centers in the brain / James Olds
The structure of the protein molecules / Linus Pauling, Robert B. Corey and Roger Hayward
The physics of viruses / Ernest C. Pollard
Single human cells in vitro / Theodore T. Puck
Photosynthesis / Eugene I. Rabinowitch
Giant molecules in cells and tissues / Francis O. Schmitt
Powerhouse of the cell / Philip Siekevitz
The kidney / Homer W. Smith
The cerebellum / Ray S. Snider
Partner of the genes / T. M. Sonneborn
The multiplication of bacterial viruses / Gunther S. Stent
ATP / Paul K. Stumpf
The insulin molecule / E. O. P. Thompson
Fertilization and antibodies / Albert Tyler
The ear / Georg von Bekesy
How do cells differentiate? / C. H. Waddington
Eye and camera / George Wald
The origin of life / George Wald
Innovation in biology / George Wald
The metamorphosis of insects / Carroll M. Williams
Sexuality in bacteria / Elie L. Wollman and Francois Jacob
White blood cells vs. bacteria / W. Barry Wood, Jr.


Volume 2
The microsome / Paul C. Zamecnik
The circulatory system of plants / Susann and Orlin Biddulph
Nucleic acids / F. H. C. Crick
Ionizing radiation and evolution / James F. Crow
The first heartbeats / James D. Ebert
Ionizing radiation and the cell / Alexander Hollaender and George E. Stapleton
The nerve impulse and the squid / Richard D. Keynes
The mutation of viruses / C. A. Knight and Dean Fraser
The duplication of chromosomes / J. Herbert Taylor
Life and light / George Wald
The heart / Carl J. Wiggers
Metamorphosis and differentiation / V. B. Wigglesworth
The microcirculation of the blood / Benjamin W. Zweifach
The physiology of imagination / John C. Eccles
The reticulation formation / J. D. French
The synthesis of fat / David E. Green
Nucleic acids and proteins / Mahlon B. Hoagland
Energy transformations in the cell / Albert Lehninger
Biological tranducers / Werner R. Loewenstein
Radiation and the human cell / Theodore T. Puck
The growth of nerve circuits / R. W. Sperry
The electrical activity of the brain / W. Grey Walter
Self-reproducing machines / L. S. Penrose
The role of light in photosynthesis / Daniel I. Arnon
Pores in the cell membrane / Arthur K. Solomon
The Polyoma virus / Sarah E. Stewart
The mechanism of immunity / Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Cilia / Peter Satir
The chemical structure of proteins / William H. Stein and Stanford Moore
Chromatography / William H. Stein and Stanford Moore
The ultracentrifuge / George W. Gray
Electrophoresis / George W. Gray
Immunoelectrophesis / Curtis A. Williams, Jr.
Organic chemical reactions / John D. Roberts
The Parathyroid hormone / Howard Rasmussen
Interferon / Alick Isaacs
Collagen / Jerome Gross
Viruses and Genes / Francois Jacob and Elie L. Wollman
The living cell / Jean Brachet
How cells transform energy / Albert L. Lehninger
How cells make molecules / Vincent G. Allfrey and Alfred e. Mirsky
How cells divide / Daniel Mazia


Volume 3
How cells specialize / Michail Fischberg and Antonie W. Blackler
How cells associate / A. A. Moscona
How things get into cells / Heinz Holter
How cells move / Teru Hayashi
How cells communicate / Bernhard Katz
How cells receive stimuli / William H. Miller, Floyd Ratliff and H. K. Hartline
Tracers / Martin D. Kamen
Paleobiochemistry / Philip H. Abelson
The age of the solar system / Harrison Brown
"The organizer" / George W. Gray
How do genes act? / Vernon M. Ingram
The regeneration of body parts / Marcus Singer
"Transduction" in bacteria / Norton D. Zinder
Light and plant development / W. L. Butler and Robert J. Downs
Charles Darwin / Loren C. Eiseley
The late blight of potatoes / John S. Niederhauser and William C. Cobb
Plant growth substances / Frank B. Salisbury
Lichens / I. Mackenzie Lamb
The flowering process / Frank B. Salisbury
The control of flowering / Aubrey W. Naylor
The ecology of desert plants / Frits W. Went
Molds and men / Ralph Emerson
What makes leaves fall? / William P. Jacobs
Germination / Dov Koller
The ripening of fruit / J. B. Biale
Messenger RNA / Jerard Hurwitz and J. J. Furth
The fine structure of the gene / Seymour Benzer
The three-dimensional structure of a protein molecule / John C. Kendrew
The path of carbon in photosynthesis / J. A. Bassham
The genetic code / F. H. C. Crick
The schooling of fishes / Evelyn Shaw
The analysis of brain waves / Mary A. B. Brazier
The effects of smoking / E. Cuyler Hammond
The behavior of sharks / Perry W. Gilbert
Single-stranded DNA / Robert L. Shinsheimer
The human thermostat / T. H. Benzinger
Dialects in the language of the bees / Karl von Frisch
Pumps in the living cell / Arthur K. Solomon
Kinins / H. O. J. Collier
Celestial navigation by birds / E. G. F. Sauer
Satellite cells in the nervous system / Holger Hyden
Cleaning symbiosis / Conrad Limbaugh
Electricity in plants / Bruce I. H. Scott
Daddy Longlegs / Theodore H. Savory


Volume 4
The thymus gland / Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Visual pigments in man / W. A. H. Rushton
The evolution of the hand / John Napier
Biological luminescence / William D. McElroy and Howard H. Seliger
Surface tension in the lungs / John A. Clements
Ultraviolet radiation and nucleic acid / R. A. Deering
The ecosphere / LaMont C. Cole
The language of birds / W. H. Thorpe
Brains and cocoons / William G. Van der Kloot
The structure of viruses / R. W. Horne
Skin transplants and the hamster / Rupert E. Billingham and Willys K. Silvers
Protopsychology / Jay Boyd Best
Chromosomes and disease / A. G. Bearn and James L. German III
The membrane of the living cell / J. David Robertson
Electric location by fishes / H. W. Lissmann
The genetic code: II / Marshall W. Nirenberg
How sap moves in trees / Martin H. Zimmerman
The aging of collagen / Frederic Verzar
The lysosome / Christian de Duve
Pheromones / Edward O. Wilson
The lymphatic system / H. S. Mayerson
The ecological effects of radiation / George M. Woodwell
The ACTH molecule / Choh Hao Li
Sex differences in cells / Ursula Mittwoch
Inhibition in visual systems / Donald Kennedy
Progesterone / Arpad Csapo
How slime molds communicate / John Tyler Bonner
Autobiographies of cells / Renato Baserga and Walter E. Kisieleski
Foreign nucleic acids / Alick Isaacs
The control of growth in plant cells / F. C. Steward
The visual cortex of the brain / David H. Hubel
Aspirin / H. O. J. Collier
The chemistry of amphibian metamorphosis / Earl Frieden
Polyribosomes / Alexander Rich
The master switch of life / P. F. Scholander
The aerial migration of insects / C. G. Johnson
The great cerebral commissure / R. W. Sperry
How cells attack antigens / Robert S. Speirs
Bacterial endotoxins / A. I. Braude
Experimental narcotic addiction / James R. Weeks
Vision in frogs / W. R. A. Muntz
Chromosome Puffs / Wolfgang Beermann and Ulrich Clever
Sound communication in honeybees / Adrian M. Wenner
Amoeboid Movement / Robert D. Allen


Volume 5
Hybrid nucleic acids/ S. Spiegelman
Early concepts of the senses and the mind / A. C. Crombie
A defective cancer virus / Harry Rubin
Flower pigments / Sarah Clevenger
Control mechanisms of the eye / Derek H. Fender
The thymus hormone / Raphael H. Levey
Insect attractants / Martin Jacobson and Morton Beroza
Wine / Maynard A. Amerine
The embryological origin of muscle / Irwin R. Konigsberg
Population control in animals / V. C. Wynne-Edwards
The genetic code of a virus / Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
Tears and the lacrimal gland / Stella Y. Botelho
Habitat selection / Stanley C. Wecker
The hemoglobin molecule / M. F. Perutz
Three-pigment color vision / Edward F. MacNichol, Jr.
Protein-digesting enzymes / Hans Neurath
How cells make anti-bodies / G. J. V. Nossal
The synapse / Sir John Eccles
Genes outside the chromosomes / Ruth Sager
The skin / William Montagna
The genetics of a bacterial virus / R. S. Edgar and R. H. Epstein
The smallest living cells / Harold J. Morowitz and Mark E. Tourtellotte
Learning in the octopus / Brian B. Boycott
The sarcoplasmic reticulum / Keith R. Porter and Clara Franzini-Armstrong
The control of biochemical reactions / Jean-Pierre Changeux
Moths and ultrasound / Kenneth D. Roeder
The navigation of the green turtle / Archie Carr
The physiology of exercise / Carleton B. Chapman and Jere H. Mitchell
The evolution of hemoglobin / Emile Zuckerkandl
Hormones and genes / Eric H. Davidson
The flight muscle of insects / David S. Smith
The pineal gland / Richard J. Wurtman and Julius Axelrod
The role of chlorophyll in photosynthesis / Eugene I. Rabinowitch and Govindjee
Flies and disease / Bernard Greenberg
The production of heat by fat / Michael J. R. Dawkins and David Hull
The swimming energetics of salmon / J. R. Brett
Protein from petroleum / Alfred Champagnat
Electrical effects in bone / C. Andrew L. Bassett
The chemistry of cell membranes / Lowell E. Hokin and Mabel R. Hokin
An artificial heart inside the body / Willem J. Kolff
The reversal of tumor growth / Armin C. Braun
The ice fish / Johan T. Ruud
The mechanism of muscular contraction / H. E. Huxley
Fleas / Miriam Rothschild
Rheumatic fever / Earl H. Freimer and Maclyn McCarty


Volume 6
Heat transfer in plants / David M. Gates
The bacterial chromosome / John Cairns
Orchids / Joseph Arditti
Adaptations to cold / Laurence Irving
The nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid / Robert W. Holley
The lung / Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
The hagfish / David Jensen
Living under the sea / Joseph B. MacInnis
The footprints of tumor viruses / Fred Rapp and Joseph L. Melnick
The nerve axon / Peter F. Baker
False scorpions / Theodore H. Savory
Chromosome analysis by computer / Robert S. Ledley and Frank H. Ruddle
Antibiotics and the genetic code / Luigi Gorini
How a tadpole becomes a frog / William Etkin
Molecular model-building by computer / Cyrus Levinthal
The blue-green algae / Patrick Echlin
Pigs in the laboratory / Leo K. Bustad
The last of the great whales / Scott McVay
Mammalian eggs in the laboratory / R. G. Edwards
Taste receptors / Edward S. Hodgson
The behavior of lovebirds / William C. Dilger
The desert rat / Knut and Bodil Schmidt-Nielson
Differentiation in social amoebae / John Tyler Bonner
The genetic code: III / F. H. C. Crick
Night blindness / John E. Dowling
The navigation of penguins / John T. Emlen and Richard L. Penny
The three-dimensional structure of an enzyme molecule / David C. Phillips
The aging Great Lakes / Charles F. Powers and Andrew Robertson
Acetabularia: A useful giant cell / Aharon Gibor
The genetic control of the shape of a virus / Edouard Kellenberger
Numerical taxonomy / Robert R. Sokal
Rats / S. A. Barnett
The repair of DNA / Philip C. Hanawalt and Robert H. Haynes
The genetics of the Dunkers / H. Bentley Glass
Human growth / George W. Gray
Bone / Franklin C. McLean
Sickle cells and evolution / Anthony C. Allison
Toxic substances and ecological cycles / George M. Woodwell
The heart's pacemaker / E. F. Adolph
Orthodox and unorthodox methods of meeting world food needs / N. W. Pirie
The induction of cancer by viruses / Renato Dulbecco
The antiquity of human walking / John Napier
The evolution of bee language / Harald Esch
The diving women of Korea and Japan / Suk Ki Hong and Hermann Rahn
Small systems of nerve cells / Donald Kennedy


Volume 7
Gene structure and protein structure / Charles Yanofsky
Molecular isomers in vision / Ruth Hubbard and Allen Kropf
Butterflies and plants / Paul R. Ehrlich and Peter H. Raven
Memory and protein synthesis / Bernard W. Agranoff
Third-generation pesticides / Carroll M. Williams
Building a bacterial virus / William B. Wood and R. S. Edgar
Tetrodotoxin / Frederick A. Fuhrman
Barbiturates / Elijah Adams
Alkaloids / Trevor Robinson
The structure of antibodies / R. R. Porter
Visual isolation in gulls / Neal Griffith Smith
Lysosomes and disease / Anthony Allison
The fungus gardens of insects / Suzanne W. T. Batra and Lekh R. Batra
Infectious drug resistance / Tsutomu Watanabe
The water buffalo / W. Ross Cockrill
Afterimages / G. S. Brindley
The eye and the brain / R. W. Sperry
Earlier maturation in man / J. M. Tanner
How proteins start / Brian F. C. Clark and Kjeld A. Marcker
The venous system / J. Edwin Wood
Predatory Fungi / Joseph J. Maio
Nocturnal animals / H. N. Southern
The physiology of the camel / Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
The spider and the wasp / Alexander Petrunkevitch
The evolution of bowerbirds / E. Thomas Gilliard
The ecology of fire / Charles F. Cooper
The Thalidomide syndrome / Helen B. Taussig
The membrane of the mitochondrion / Efraim Racker
The migration of polar bears / Vagn Flyger and Marjorie R. Townsend
Human cells and aging / Leonard Hayflick
Bacterial viruses and sex / Max and Mary Bruce Delbruck
Pollen / Patrick Echlin
The sexual life of a mosquito / Jack Colvard Jones
The flight-control system of the locust / Donald M. Wilson
Territorial marking by rabbits / Roman Mykytowycz
The discovery of DNA / Alfred E. Mirsky
Plants without cellulose / R. D. Preston
The control of plant growth / Johannes van Overbeek
Hidden lives / Theodore H. Savory
How fishes swim / Sir James Gray
How animals run / Milton Hildebrand
Bird Aerodynamics / John H. Storer
Birds as flying machines / Carl Welty
'The Wonderful Net' / P. F. Scholander
Salt Glands / Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
How reptiles regulate their body temperature / Charles M. Bogert
Desert ground squirrels / George A. Bartholomew and Jack W. Hudson