Where the Truth Lies: Franz Moewus and the Origins of Molecular Biology

by Jan Sapp

Book Overview

This absorbing account of a case of suspected fraud involving the tragic career of the molecular biologist Franz Moewus illustrates all that can go wrong in scientific knowledge-making. The author follows Moewus' meteoric flight among the greatest scientists of the twentieth-century, to his denunciation as the perpetrator of one of the most ambitious cases of fraud in the history of science. He discusses the socio-political issues that helped to bring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521367514
• ISBN13: 9780521367516
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"