Vital forces : the discovery of the molecular basis of life / Graeme K. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Graeme K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biochemistry--History.

Biochemistry.

History.

Molecular biology--History.

Molecular biology.

Biochemistry--history.

Molecular Biology--history.

Medical Subjects:

Biochemistry--history.

Molecular Biology--history.

Physical Description:

xix, 364 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Academic Press, [2000]

Summary:

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. 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. * 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

Contents:

Revolution in chemistry has come to pass

Maze of organic chemistry

Singular inward laboratory

Catalytic force

Building stones of protoplasm

Chemical and geometrical phenomena of heredity

Megachemistry of the future

Giant molecules of the living cell

Chemical basis of genetics

Hereditary code-script

Ubiquitous spiral

Our thread of ariadne

Nature is blind and reads braille.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

012361810X

0123618118

OCLC:

44187710