Hutchinson trends in science. Biology.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helicon (Firm)

Series:

Hutchinson trends in science.

Hutchinson trends in science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology.

Biology--History--20th century.

Biology--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Biologists--Biography.

Biologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Other Title:

Biology

Trends in science. Biology

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Helicon, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Overview of the development of biology in the 20th century.

Contents:

"" Hutchinson Trends in Science: Biology""; ""Preface""; "" Table of contents""; "" Overview: biology in the 20th century""; ""The unraveling of genetics""; ""New science of genetic engineering""; ""Advances in human genetics""; ""Birth of biochemistry and cell biology""; ""Developmental biology""; ""Ecology and animal behaviour""; ""The environment""; ""evolution and human origins""; ""Extinction and the discovery of new species""; ""How life on Earth began""; ""'Genomic Era'""; "" Chronology""; "" Biographical sketches""; ""Arber, Werner (1929)""

""Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955)""""Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941)""; ""Beadle, George Wells (1903-1989)""; ""Berg, Paul (1926)""; ""Best, Charles H(erbert) (1899-1978)""; ""Bodmer, Walter Fred (1936)""; ""Brenner, Sydney (1927)""; ""Brown, Michael Stuart (1941)""; ""Calvin, Melvin (1911-1997)""; ""Carson, Rachel Louise (1907-1964)""; ""Cohen, Stanley (1922)""; ""Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916-2004)""; ""Dawkins, (Clinton) Richard (1941)""; ""Delbrack, Max (1906-1981)""; ""Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1900-1975)""

""adopted name of Feodosy Grigorevich Dobrzhansky""""Elion, Gertrude Belle (1918-1999)""; ""Elton, Charles Sutherland (1900-1991)""; ""Evans, Alice Catherine (1881-1975)""; ""Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)""; ""Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955)""; ""Fossey, Dian (1932-1985)""; ""Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (1920-1958)""; ""Frisch, Karl von (1886-1982)""; ""Goodall, Jane (1934-)""; ""Baroness van Lawick-Goodall""; ""Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002)""; ""Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) (1892-1964)""; ""Hamilton, William D(onald) (1936-2000)""

""Hershey, Alfred Day (1908-1997)""""Hyman, Libbie Henrietta (1888-1969)""; ""Jacob, Francois (1920-)""; ""Jeffreys, Alec John (1950-)""; ""Khorana, Har Gobind (1922-)""; ""Krebs, Hans Adolf (1900-1981)""; ""Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903-1972)""; ""Leakey, Mary Douglas (1913-1996)""; ""born Mary Douglas Nicol""; ""Lederberg, Joshua (1925-)""; ""Lewontin, Richard C(harles) (1929-)""; ""Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903-1989)""; ""Luria, Salvador Edward (1912-1991)""; ""Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (1898-1976)""; ""Margulis, Lynn Alexander (1938-)""

""Maynard Smith, John (1920-2004)""""Mayr, Ernst Walter (1904-2005)""; ""Milstein, Ceasar (1927-2002)""; ""Monod, Jacques Lucien (1910-1976)""; ""Montagnier, Luc (1932-)""; ""Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866-1945)""; ""Mullis, Kary Banks (1944-)""; ""how DNA is copied""; ""life""; ""Nasslein-Volhard, Christiane (1942-)""; ""Rothschild, Miriam (1908-2005)""; ""Sanger, Frederick (1918-)""; ""Schaller, George B(eals) (1933-)""; ""Sturtevant, Alfred Henry (1891-1970)""; ""mutant fruit flies""; ""determining the gene order""; ""Tatum, Edward Lawrie (1909-1975)""

""Tinbergen, Niko(laas) (1907-1988)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-75870-8

9786610758708

OCLC:

560195440