title: Chances and choices: Cold Spring Harbor 1944-1955.
abstract: The author describes the circumstances and events that led her to begin graduate work in genetics at Columbia University in 1941 and to spend the summer of 1944 and the years 1945-1955 at the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor. She then recalls incidents and recounts anecdotes meant to convey something of the atmosphere of that place during those memorable years.
authors.affiliation: Waksman Institute, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08855-0759; e-mail: ewitkin@aol.com
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: M  Witkin
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007753:Laboratories / Q000266:history; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000266:history*; D009518:New York; D014481:United States