Abstract
IT MIGHT BE THE TEST OF A TRUE scientist: Is your idea of the perfect summer trip a week relaxing on a sun-kissed beach or a week holed up in an otherwise deserted prep school campus in New England, debatingyour latest results with 100 of your colleagues and competitors? Despite their reputation for cafeteria food and dorm-style accommodations, the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) remain the highlight of many a scientist's summer. Now in their 75th year, these much-loved conferences continue to shape both the lives of scientists and the frontiers of scientific research. The conferences have a long and storied history at the leading edge of science. Enrico Fermi described the slow-neutron process of atomic disintegration to a Gordon conference audience in 1936, a decade before the atomic bomb was unleashed on the world. The implications of recombinant DNA technology first came to the fore at the 1973 Gordon conference on nucleic acids. More recently, ...
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