title: The discovery of Gramicidin S: the intellectual transformation of G.F. Gause from biologist to researcher of antibiotics and on its meaning for the fate of Russian genetics.
abstract: The discovery of Gramicidin S is considered to be the outcome of the intellectual transformation of Russian biologist G.F. Gause from simply a biologist to a researcher of antibiotics. Different historical conditions of this change as well as the development of experimental biology itself at this time are analysed in detail. The meaning of Gause's occupation of a new 'niche' in soviet science for the fate of Russian post-war genetics is defined as well.
authors.affiliation: St. Petersburg Branch, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg. 5/2, Russia.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Gall
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Konashev
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000266:history*; D001695:Biology / Q000266:history*; D005823:Genetics / Q000266:history*; D006096:Gramicidin / Q000266:history*; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D012106:Research / Q000266:history; D012426:Russia
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D006096:Gramicidin