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The birth of Big Biology

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Your editorial “Big Science comes of age”1 suggests that, in my writings of 40 years ago, I neglected Big Biology. On the contrary, I argued that “We are entering an age of biomedical science and biomedical technology that could rival in magnitude and richness the present age of physical science and physical technology”2.

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  1. Nature 400, 387 (1999).

  2. Weinberg, A. M. Minerva IV, 5–14 (1965).

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  3. Anderson, N. G. Science Journal January, 1–7 (1967).

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