Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life
- ISBN-10
- 0123618118
- ISBN-13
- 9780123618115
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-11-17
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Author
- Graeme K. Hunter
Description
Combining science and biography into a seamless chronological narrative, the author of Vital Forces 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
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