In 1950, Max Delbrück organized the fourth Phage Meeting, the first at CSHL. Many prominent scientists in the field of molecular biology attended the Phage Meeting in 1954.

Circled left to right in the photo above: Back row: James Watson, Waclaw Szybalski, Norton Zinder, Martha Chase. Middle row: Karl Maramorosch, Kitty Warren, Alan Garen, Gunther Stent, Gus Doermenn. Front row: Alfred Hershey, Milislav Demerec, Sydney Brenner, Francis Crick. The Phage Meetings continued yearly until 2010.