Hans Krebs / Frederic Lawrence Holmes. Vol.1, The formation of a scientific life 1900-1933.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Frederic L., author.

Series:

Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir.

Krebs, Hans Adolf.

Biochemists--Germany--Biography.

Biochemists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The biography of one of the world's foremost biochemists, which traces his scientific career and his discoveries of the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The text makes use of five years of interviews with Hans Krebs, and a complete set of Krebs' key laboratory notebooks.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Intermediary Metabolism in the First Third of the Twentieth Century; 2. Boyhood in Hildesheim; 3. Outward Movement; 4. Clinical Years; 5. The Research Apprentice; 6. Initiative and Dependence; 7. Moves Toward Autonomy; 8. Freiburg: The Foundation of a Career; 9. The Ornithine Effect; 10. The Formation of Urea; 11. The Rewards of Success; 12. The Brief Life of a School of Intermediary Metabolism; 13. Reflections on the Formation of a Scientific Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770129-9

1-280-60572-3

9786610605729

0-19-536128-8

OCLC:

476007684