Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life

by Graeme K. Hunter

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 012361810X
• ISBN13: 9780123618108
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

200 yrs history of chemistry and biochemistry (1770-1970)

It has 4 pages of author index and 5 pages of subject index, many figures and tables (about one/every 5 pages). This book covers a 200 years history of chemistry and biochemistry, from 1770 to 1970, from Lavoisier to genetic code. It covers scientists like Lavoisier, Liebig, Kekule, Pateur, Levene, Morgan, Muller, Svedberg, Delbruck, Avery, Chargaff.