Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of LifeAcademic Press, 2000 M11 3 - 364 páginas Vital Forces tells the history of the 'biochemical revolution', a period of unprecedentedly rapid advance in human knowledge that profoundly affected our view of life and laid the foundation for modern medicine and biotechnology. The story is told in a clear, engaging, and absorbing manner. This delightful work relates the fascinating and staggering advances in concepts and theories over the last 200 years and introduces the major figures of the times. Vital Forces also describes the discovery of the molecular basis of life through the stories of the scientists involved, including such towering figures as Louis Pasteur, Gregor Mendel, Linus Pauling, and Francis Crick. Combining science and biography into a seamless chronological narrative, the author brings to life the successes and failures, collaborations and feuds, and errors and insights that produced the revolution in biology. * Vividly describes dramatic scientific discoveries, personalities, feuds and rivalries * Answers a general readers quest to understand the nature of life, and the relevance of biochemistry/molecular biology to modern medicine, industry and agriculture. |
Contenido
The Revolution in Chemistry Has Come to Pass | 1 |
The Maze of Organic Chemistry | 19 |
A Singular Inward Laboratory | 53 |
The Catalytic Force | 75 |
Building Stones of Protoplasm | 101 |
The Chemical and Geometrical Phenomena of Heredity | 123 |
The Megachemistry of the Future | 155 |
The Giant Molecules of the Living Cell | 193 |
The Hereditary Codescript | 235 |
The Ubiquitous Spiral | 255 |
Our Thread of Ariadne | 277 |
Nature is Blind and Reads Braille | 305 |
References | 335 |
Selected Readings in the History of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 341 |
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Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life Graeme K. Hunter Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life Graeme K. Hunter Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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The History of Metaphors of Nature: Science and Literature from ..., Volumen2 Stephen A. Norwick Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
Advances in Applied Microbiology Allen I. Laskin,Sima Sariaslani,Geoffrey M. Gadd Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |