Rasmussen, Nicolas

Rasmussen, Nicolas. What Moves When Technologies Migrate Software and Hardware in the Transfer of Biological Electron Microscopy to Postwar Australia. Technology and Culture 40 (1999) 47-73. 

Rasmussen, Nicolas Picture Control. The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America 1940-1960, Stanford 1997. 

See, with special emphasis on cortisone and other biomolecules, the paper of Nicolas Rasmussen in this volume. 

The connections between radioactive science and industry, prefiguring those between nuclear science and industry, were well in place long before the Manhattan Project, a conclusion that echoes Nicolas Rasmussen s remarks on molecular genetics not being the first life science to become biotechnology (see his paper in... 

The comment on Nicolas Rasmussen s paper has been written by Robert Olby, whose generous willingness to contribute to this introduction is gratefully acknowledged. 

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