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Gerald Weissmann

Columbia College, Class of 1950

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Full name
Gerald Weissmann

Columbia & the Society

Columbia
Class of 1950 (Columbia College)

Works (120)

  1. 1958 Scleroderma Associated with Osteopoikilosis · Archives of Internal Medicine
  2. 1958 Sjögren's syndrome · The American Journal of Medicine
  3. 1960 X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Human Aortic Elastin Residues* · Journal of Clinical Investigation
  4. 1961 Changes in Connective Tissue and Intestine Caused by Vitamin a in Amphibia, and Their Acceleration by Hydrocortisone · The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  5. 1964 Analytical Review: Lysosomes · Blood
  6. 1965 Lysosomes · New England Journal of Medicine
  7. 1968 The Many-Faceted Lysosome · Hospital Practice
  8. 1971 The Molecular Basis of Acute Gout · Hospital Practice
  9. 1973 Effects of Corticosteroids on the Stability and Fusion of Biomembranes · Asthma
  10. 1973 Introduction to Biomembranes · Hospital Practice
  11. 1974 Introduction · European Review
  12. 1974 Mediators of inflammation
  13. 1974 The Lives of a Cell · Hospital Practice
  14. 1975 Marat on Sabbatical · Hospital Practice
  15. 1976 A Pigment of the Imagination · Hospital Practice
  16. 1977 Editorial · Hospital Practice
  17. 1977 The Tides of Anti‐Science · The Sciences
  18. 1978 Leukocytes as Secretory Organs of Inflammation · Hospital Practice
  19. 1979 Clinical Strategy in the Arthritides · Hospital Practice
  20. 1979 Genetic Constraints on Freedom · Hospital Practice
  21. 1979 Give Me Liberty · The Sciences
  22. 1979 The Introduction of Missing Enzymes into Human Cells · The Biological Revolution
  23. 1980 Biological Revolution
  24. 1980 Guilty With an Explanation: Reflections on the Marathon · Hospital Practice
  25. 1980 Prostaglandins in acute inflammation
  26. 1980 The Chart of the Novel · Hospital Practice
  27. 1980 The Text in Context: Seeds of Fantasy · Hospital Practice
  28. 1980 Truffles on the Sherbet · Hospital Practice
  29. 1981 Advances in Inflammation Research
  30. 1981 Auden and the Liposome · Hospital Practice
  31. 1981 Bellevue: Form Follows Function · Hospital Practice
  32. 1981 Scientists Prove Science Writers Cause Cancer · Hospital Practice
  33. 1981 The Encyclopedic View · Hospital Practice
  34. 1982 A Fashion in Metals · Hospital Practice
  35. 1982 Cholera at the Harvey · Hospital Practice
  36. 1982 Edward C. Franklin 1928–1982 · Arthritis & Rheumatism
  37. 1982 Foucault and the Bag Lady · Hospital Practice
  38. 1982 The Need to Know: Utilitarian and Esthetic Values of Biomedical Science · Philosophy and Medicine
  39. 1982 Voltaire's Best Seller · Hospital Practice
  40. 1983 AIDS and Heat · Hospital Practice
  41. 1983 From auden to arachidonate: A tribute and a hypothesis · Cellular Immunology
  42. 1983 Nobel Week, 1982 · Hospital Practice
  43. 1983 Proust in Khaki · Hospital Practice
  44. 1983 The Eicosanoids of Asthma · New England Journal of Medicine
  45. 1983 The Introduction Is Over · Hospital Practice
  46. 1983 The Medical School Wars · Hospital Practice
  47. 1984 Couching the Question: Freud Revisited · Hospital Practice
  48. 1984 Loeb and aGloria · Hospital Practice
  49. 1984 No Frogs in Berlin · Hospital Practice
  50. 1985 Branches of the Essay · Hospital Practice
  51. 1985 Nullius in verba: Lupus at the Royal Society · Hospital Practice
  52. 1985 Prayer in the Laboratory · Hospital Practice
  53. 1985 Tests Prove It: Medicine inVogue · Hospital Practice
  54. 1985 The Woods Hole Cantata
  55. 1986 They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus · Hospital Practice
  56. 1986 Westward the Course of Empire · Hospital Practice
  57. 1987 Inflammation: Khartoum to Casablanca · Hospital Practice
  58. 1987 Losing a M.A.S.H. · Hospital Practice
  59. 1987 Wordsworth at the Barbican · Hospital Practice
  60. 1988 The Age of Miracles Hadn't Passed · Hospital Practice
  61. 1988 The Treasure of Dongo · Hospital Practice
  62. 1989 Daumier and the Deer Tick · Hospital Practice
  63. 1989 Gertrude Stein on the Beach · Hospital Practice
  64. 1989 The role of neutrophils in vascular injury: a summary of signal transduction mechanisms in cell/cell interactions · Springer Seminars in Immunopathology
  65. 1990 Begging as Metaphor · Hospital Practice
  66. 1990 The Doctor With Two Heads and Other Essays · New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
  67. 1991 Aspirin · Scientific American
  68. 1992 The Doctor Dilemma · Knoxville: Whittle, 1992
  69. 1993 The Biological Century: Friday Evening Talks at the Marine Biological Laboratory · Woods Hole: Marine Biological Laboratory, 1993
  70. 1995 Democracy and DNA · New York: Hill and Wang, 1995
  71. 1995 Ecosentimentalism · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  72. 1995 “SUCKING With Vampires’ · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  73. 1997 Puerperal priority · The Lancet
  74. 1998 Darwin's Audubon
  75. 1998 Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination · New York: Plenum, 1998
  76. 2002 The Year of the Genome
  77. 2002 The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution · New York: Henry Holt, 2002
  78. 2003 Jimmy Mac · Nature Genetics
  79. 2005 The facts of evolution: fighting the Endarkenment · The FASEB Journal
  80. 2006 Is Sugar the Missing Link in RA? · Internal Medicine News
  81. 2006 Science fraud: from patchwork mouse to patchwork data · The FASEB Journal
  82. 2006 Stem cells, in vitro fertilization, and Jacques Loeb · The FASEB Journal
  83. 2006 Swift‐boating Darwin: alternative or complementary science · The FASEB Journal
  84. 2007 Editor's response to Torday and Rehan · The FASEB Journal
  85. 2007 Encyclopedias of Life: From Diderot to the Yeti Crab · The FASEB Journal
  86. 2007 Evo/Devo and the lungfish: the last gasp of intelligent design · The FASEB Journal
  87. 2007 Galileo's Gout
  88. 2007 Trashing “America the Beautiful”: from She to Shining She · The FASEB Journal
  89. 2007 “Women will not be what they are now”— Elizabeth Blackwell Breaks the Bonds · The FASEB Journal
  90. 2008 Claude Bernard and Judah Folkman: Nothing Makes Sense in Medicine Except in the Light of Biology · The FASEB Journal
  91. 2008 Dengue Fever in Rio: Macumba versus Voltaire · The FASEB Journal
  92. 2008 Myrna Loy: Co‐Principal Investigator · The FASEB Journal
  93. 2008 Science as Oath and Testimony: Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008) · The FASEB Journal
  94. 2008 Tithonus and the Fruit Fly: New Science and Old Myths · The FASEB Journal
  95. 2008 Writing Science: The Abstract is Poetry, the Paper is Prose · The FASEB Journal
  96. 2008 “Spinal Irritation” and Fibromyalgia: A Surgeon General and the Three Graces · The FASEB Journal
  97. 2009 Mortal and immortal DNA
  98. 2009 Sicko Statistics: Michael Moore and L'Ècole de Paris · The FASEB Journal
  99. 2010 A Nobel Prize is Out of Order: “American Idol” vs. Hypatia of Alexandria · The FASEB Journal
  100. 2010 Experimental Errors: Paul Bert and the Alabama Tenure Killings · The FASEB Journal
  101. 2010 Filter the Dogs: Microbial Mishaps in Massachusetts · The FASEB Journal
  102. 2010 Radium, Telomeres, and Ribosomes: Glass Ceilings Break in Stockholm · The FASEB Journal
  103. 2010 Under the Spreading Atrophy: Lighten Up! · The FASEB Journal
  104. 2010 X‐ray Politics: Lenard vs. Röntgen and Einstein · The FASEB Journal
  105. 2011 Fukushima Daiichi and Icarus: The Human Factor in a Meltdown (Sv= 1J/kg.w) · The FASEB Journal
  106. 2011 Up the Down Pay Scale: Teachers vs. Football Coaches · The FASEB Journal
  107. 2012 Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science · New York: Bellevue, 2012
  108. 2012 Modernism and the Hippocampus A Review of The Age of Insight: Vienna 1900 · The FASEB Journal
  109. 2013 Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science by ChristophIrmscher (2013) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston · The FASEB Journal
  110. 2014 Stephen E. Malawista (1934–2013): Infection and Rheumatic Disease · The FASEB Journal
  111. 2015 Ebola, Dynamin, and the Cordon Sanitaire of Dr. Adrien Proust · The FASEB Journal
  112. 2016 From Interferon to PhilanthropyLove and Science: A Memoir by JanVilcekSeven Stories Press, New York, 2016 · The FASEB Journal
  113. 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
  114. 2016 Summa cum Laude : Richard Dawkin'sBrief Candle in the Dark (HarperCollins, New York, 2015, 455 pp.) · The FASEB Journal
  115. 1950 Cell membranes
  116. 1950 Epigenetics in the age of Twitter
  117. 1950 Fevers of Reason
  118. 1950 Immunology of inflammation
  119. 1950 The Cell biology of inflammation
  120. 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).

Columbia College Today — vol. 43 (2002), Philolexian bicentennial dinner report →

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