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Bound by muscle : biological science, humanism, and the lives of A.V. Hill and Otto Meyerhof / Andrew Brown.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QP25 .B76 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hill, A. V. (Archibald Vivian), 1886-1977.
- Hill, A. V.
- Meyerhof, Otto, 1884-1951.
- Meyerhof, Otto.
- Physiologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physiologists.
- Physiologists--Germany--Biography.
- Germany.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- In Bound by Muscle, Andrew Brown details the lives and achievements of two physiologists, Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977) and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951). Hill and Meyerhof shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries related to metabolic changes underlying muscle activity. Bound by Muscle describes how Hill and Meyerhof's lives and careers intersected and diverged and how their work changed the course of biological science.
- Contents:
- Breakfast at the Hills'
- Not Even a Physiologist
- Otto Fritz Meyerhof
- Heat and Lactic Acid
- Hill's Brigands and the Great War, 1914-18
- Post-war Tensions
- Stockholm and Beyond
- Revolutions in Physiology and Power
- Preparing for War
- 1940 - Backs Against the Wall
- Deliverance
- Restoration
- Legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Dr. Andrew Brown.
- ISBN:
- 9780197582633
- 019758263X
- OCLC:
- 1348996801
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