Abstract
Serendipity
Highlights
I wanted children, and taking care of them has always been my first priority, I did not want to quit science completely in doing so
I chose to work with Francois Jacob and upon arrival told him that I was interested in studying repressors of lysogenic viruses. These bacterial viruses, upon infection, had a choice of either expressing most of their genes, thereby reproducing, lysing the host, and producing clear plaques on the bacterial lawn or expressing only two genes (CI and CII), which repressed all the lytic genes and produced turbid plaques
After determining all the parameters affecting its induction we published the paper in Comptes Rendus [23]
Summary
I wanted children, and taking care of them has always been my first priority, I did not want to quit science completely in doing so. In 1958 we moved to the biology department of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (with a professorship for Maurice but no academic appointment for me) where we found excellent graduate students and an exciting scientific atmosphere.
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