Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 10 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5839, pp. 761 - 762
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147166
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Perspectives

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
The Cha-Cha-Cha Theory of Scientific Discovery

Daniel E. Koshland Jr.

Dividing the discovery process into three categories can aid in understanding the genesis of small, everyday advances as well as breakthroughs that appear in history books.

D. E. Koshland Jr. passed away on 23 July 2007. He was a professor of biochemistry and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1965. He served as Science's editor-in-chief from 1985 to 1995.

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Nature's Genetic Gradients and the Clinical Phenotype.
A. J. Marian (2009)
Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2, 537-539
   Full Text »    PDF »
Reply..
A. J. Marian (2008)
J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 51, 2195-2196
   Full Text »    PDF »
Surprises of the genome and "personalized" medicine..
A. J. Marian (2008)
J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 51, 456-458
   Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)