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Walter Shropshire Contributes To, Edits Book on Max Delbrück
 A new book titled Max Delbrück and the New Perception of Biology 1906-1981 was edited by Sigma Pi Sigma member Walter Shropshire, Jr. (George Washington University '54).
Max Delbrück received his PhD in physics at the University of Gottingen in 1930 and worked as an assistant for five years in the laboratory of Lise Meitner. He became interested in genes in the mid-thirties, and in 1969 was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on gene replication.
This book of remembrances includes many charming stories about Max Delbrück written by his colleagues. Dr. Shropshire, the editor and a Sigma Pi Sigma member, wrote chapter 3, At Play in the Fields of Homo Scientificus, and he tells of camping trips with Delbrück and Feynman and of DNA coding with Gamow's nuclear physics class. I found it thoroughly entertaining and informative, and I recommend it highly.
Gary White
Director, Sigma Pi Sigma
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