The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Gerald Weissmann
Vital
- Full name
- Gerald Weissmann
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1950 (Columbia College)
Works (120)
- 1958 Scleroderma Associated with Osteopoikilosis · Archives of Internal Medicine
- 1958 Sjögren's syndrome · The American Journal of Medicine
- 1960 X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Human Aortic Elastin Residues* · Journal of Clinical Investigation
- 1961 Changes in Connective Tissue and Intestine Caused by Vitamin a in Amphibia, and Their Acceleration by Hydrocortisone · The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- 1964 Analytical Review: Lysosomes · Blood
- 1965 Lysosomes · New England Journal of Medicine
- 1968 The Many-Faceted Lysosome · Hospital Practice
- 1971 The Molecular Basis of Acute Gout · Hospital Practice
- 1973 Effects of Corticosteroids on the Stability and Fusion of Biomembranes · Asthma
- 1973 Introduction to Biomembranes · Hospital Practice
- 1974 Introduction · European Review
- 1974 Mediators of inflammation
- 1974 The Lives of a Cell · Hospital Practice
- 1975 Marat on Sabbatical · Hospital Practice
- 1976 A Pigment of the Imagination · Hospital Practice
- 1977 Editorial · Hospital Practice
- 1977 The Tides of Anti‐Science · The Sciences
- 1978 Leukocytes as Secretory Organs of Inflammation · Hospital Practice
- 1979 Clinical Strategy in the Arthritides · Hospital Practice
- 1979 Genetic Constraints on Freedom · Hospital Practice
- 1979 Give Me Liberty · The Sciences
- 1979 The Introduction of Missing Enzymes into Human Cells · The Biological Revolution
- 1980 Biological Revolution
- 1980 Guilty With an Explanation: Reflections on the Marathon · Hospital Practice
- 1980 Prostaglandins in acute inflammation
- 1980 The Chart of the Novel · Hospital Practice
- 1980 The Text in Context: Seeds of Fantasy · Hospital Practice
- 1980 Truffles on the Sherbet · Hospital Practice
- 1981 Advances in Inflammation Research
- 1981 Auden and the Liposome · Hospital Practice
- 1981 Bellevue: Form Follows Function · Hospital Practice
- 1981 Scientists Prove Science Writers Cause Cancer · Hospital Practice
- 1981 The Encyclopedic View · Hospital Practice
- 1982 A Fashion in Metals · Hospital Practice
- 1982 Cholera at the Harvey · Hospital Practice
- 1982 Edward C. Franklin 1928–1982 · Arthritis & Rheumatism
- 1982 Foucault and the Bag Lady · Hospital Practice
- 1982 The Need to Know: Utilitarian and Esthetic Values of Biomedical Science · Philosophy and Medicine
- 1982 Voltaire's Best Seller · Hospital Practice
- 1983 AIDS and Heat · Hospital Practice
- 1983 From auden to arachidonate: A tribute and a hypothesis · Cellular Immunology
- 1983 Nobel Week, 1982 · Hospital Practice
- 1983 Proust in Khaki · Hospital Practice
- 1983 The Eicosanoids of Asthma · New England Journal of Medicine
- 1983 The Introduction Is Over · Hospital Practice
- 1983 The Medical School Wars · Hospital Practice
- 1984 Couching the Question: Freud Revisited · Hospital Practice
- 1984 Loeb and aGloria · Hospital Practice
- 1984 No Frogs in Berlin · Hospital Practice
- 1985 Branches of the Essay · Hospital Practice
- 1985 Nullius in verba: Lupus at the Royal Society · Hospital Practice
- 1985 Prayer in the Laboratory · Hospital Practice
- 1985 Tests Prove It: Medicine inVogue · Hospital Practice
- 1985 The Woods Hole Cantata
- 1986 They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus · Hospital Practice
- 1986 Westward the Course of Empire · Hospital Practice
- 1987 Inflammation: Khartoum to Casablanca · Hospital Practice
- 1987 Losing a M.A.S.H. · Hospital Practice
- 1987 Wordsworth at the Barbican · Hospital Practice
- 1988 The Age of Miracles Hadn't Passed · Hospital Practice
- 1988 The Treasure of Dongo · Hospital Practice
- 1989 Daumier and the Deer Tick · Hospital Practice
- 1989 Gertrude Stein on the Beach · Hospital Practice
- 1989 The role of neutrophils in vascular injury: a summary of signal transduction mechanisms in cell/cell interactions · Springer Seminars in Immunopathology
- 1990 Begging as Metaphor · Hospital Practice
- 1990 The Doctor With Two Heads and Other Essays · New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
- 1991 Aspirin · Scientific American
- 1992 The Doctor Dilemma · Knoxville: Whittle, 1992
- 1993 The Biological Century: Friday Evening Talks at the Marine Biological Laboratory · Woods Hole: Marine Biological Laboratory, 1993
- 1995 Democracy and DNA · New York: Hill and Wang, 1995
- 1995 Ecosentimentalism · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1995 “SUCKING With Vampires’ · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Puerperal priority · The Lancet
- 1998 Darwin's Audubon
- 1998 Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination · New York: Plenum, 1998
- 2002 The Year of the Genome
- 2002 The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution · New York: Henry Holt, 2002
- 2003 Jimmy Mac · Nature Genetics
- 2005 The facts of evolution: fighting the Endarkenment · The FASEB Journal
- 2006 Is Sugar the Missing Link in RA? · Internal Medicine News
- 2006 Science fraud: from patchwork mouse to patchwork data · The FASEB Journal
- 2006 Stem cells, in vitro fertilization, and Jacques Loeb · The FASEB Journal
- 2006 Swift‐boating Darwin: alternative or complementary science · The FASEB Journal
- 2007 Editor's response to Torday and Rehan · The FASEB Journal
- 2007 Encyclopedias of Life: From Diderot to the Yeti Crab · The FASEB Journal
- 2007 Evo/Devo and the lungfish: the last gasp of intelligent design · The FASEB Journal
- 2007 Galileo's Gout
- 2007 Trashing “America the Beautiful”: from She to Shining She · The FASEB Journal
- 2007 “Women will not be what they are now”— Elizabeth Blackwell Breaks the Bonds · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 Claude Bernard and Judah Folkman: Nothing Makes Sense in Medicine Except in the Light of Biology · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 Dengue Fever in Rio: Macumba versus Voltaire · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 Myrna Loy: Co‐Principal Investigator · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 Science as Oath and Testimony: Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008) · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 Tithonus and the Fruit Fly: New Science and Old Myths · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 Writing Science: The Abstract is Poetry, the Paper is Prose · The FASEB Journal
- 2008 “Spinal Irritation” and Fibromyalgia: A Surgeon General and the Three Graces · The FASEB Journal
- 2009 Mortal and immortal DNA
- 2009 Sicko Statistics: Michael Moore and L'Ècole de Paris · The FASEB Journal
- 2010 A Nobel Prize is Out of Order: “American Idol” vs. Hypatia of Alexandria · The FASEB Journal
- 2010 Experimental Errors: Paul Bert and the Alabama Tenure Killings · The FASEB Journal
- 2010 Filter the Dogs: Microbial Mishaps in Massachusetts · The FASEB Journal
- 2010 Radium, Telomeres, and Ribosomes: Glass Ceilings Break in Stockholm · The FASEB Journal
- 2010 Under the Spreading Atrophy: Lighten Up! · The FASEB Journal
- 2010 X‐ray Politics: Lenard vs. Röntgen and Einstein · The FASEB Journal
- 2011 Fukushima Daiichi and Icarus: The Human Factor in a Meltdown (Sv= 1J/kg.w) · The FASEB Journal
- 2011 Up the Down Pay Scale: Teachers vs. Football Coaches · The FASEB Journal
- 2012 Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science · New York: Bellevue, 2012
- 2012 Modernism and the Hippocampus A Review of The Age of Insight: Vienna 1900 · The FASEB Journal
- 2013 Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science by ChristophIrmscher (2013) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston · The FASEB Journal
- 2014 Stephen E. Malawista (1934–2013): Infection and Rheumatic Disease · The FASEB Journal
- 2015 Ebola, Dynamin, and the Cordon Sanitaire of Dr. Adrien Proust · The FASEB Journal
- 2016 From Interferon to PhilanthropyLove and Science: A Memoir by JanVilcekSeven Stories Press, New York, 2016 · The FASEB Journal
- 2016 Seeing Eye to Eye Vision: How it Works and What Can Go Wrong by John E.Dowling and Joseph L.DowlingMIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2016 · The FASEB Journal
- 2016 Summa cum Laude : Richard Dawkin'sBrief Candle in the Dark (HarperCollins, New York, 2015, 455 pp.) · The FASEB Journal
- 1950 Cell membranes
- 1950 Epigenetics in the age of Twitter
- 1950 Fevers of Reason
- 1950 Immunology of inflammation
- 1950 The Cell biology of inflammation
- 1950 The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays
Primary sources
Columbia College Today & other articles
Columbia College Today — vol. 43 (2002), Philolexian bicentennial dinner report
In April, Gerald [Weissmann], John Hollander and John Rosenberg attended the 200th anniversary celebration of the Philolexian Society.
Class of 1950 notes report Weissmann attended the Philolexian bicentennial celebration in April 2002 alongside John Hollander and John Rosenberg. Same class notes recount his book The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution (Henry Holt, May 2002).
The Foundation's research archive
Philolexian Foundation research file: handwritten list of Philos by class year
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