Screen LibrarySelected topics in the history of biochemistry : personal recollections. III /
As in Volumes 35 and 36, the chapters in this new volume complement, with personal recollections, the History of Biochemistry that was covered in the Comprehensive Biochemistry Series, Volumes 30-33 by M. Florkin and Volume 34A by P. Laszlo. The biographical and autobiographical chapters will convey...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 1990. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Comprehensive biochemistry. Section VI, A history of biochemistry ;
v. 37 |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00698032/37 |
| Summary: |
As in Volumes 35 and 36, the chapters in this new volume complement, with personal recollections, the History of Biochemistry that was covered in the Comprehensive Biochemistry Series, Volumes 30-33 by M. Florkin and Volume 34A by P. Laszlo. The biographical and autobiographical chapters will convey to the reader a lively, albeit at times subjective, view of the scientific and social environment in which the authors have worked, resulting in new concepts and theories on the biological sciences. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi, 396 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780444598127 044459812X 0444812164 9780444812162 |
| Index Number: | QD415 |
| CLC: | Q5 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry Personal Recollections. III.; Copyright Page; General Preface; Preface to Volume 37; Contributors to this volume; List of Plates; Section VI: -- published volumes; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Physics and the Riddle of Life; References; Chapter 2. An Octogenarian Looks Back; Family background and early education; My medical career; University College Hospital Medical School (UCH), 1933-1939; My Cambridge period; Move to the National Institute for Medical Research; Research activities; References. Chapter 3. Wladimir Engelhardt: the Man and the ScientistReferences; Chapter 4. Autobiographical Notes from a Nomadic Biochemist; Introduction; England and the United States; California, 1939; From Pasadena to Saint Louis, early 1940; Experimental proof of myokinase catalyzing ADP dismutation; The unattractive radioisotope project on muscle; An attractive offer for a research associate position in New York City; Contemplating a return to Denmark; Return to Copenhagen, 1946; Human galactosaemia; Out of the biochemistry 'stall' to a 'teach-in' against strontium-90 fallout. My personal encounters with developments in molecular biologyPreparing for U.S. Citizenship; The U-2 Incident; My deep attachments to Copenhagen, 'The Athens of the North'; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Enzyme Regulation: from Allosteric Sites to Intracellular Behavior; Physiological prelude in Barcelona; In Carl Cori's laboratory: St. Louis 1951-1953; Allosteric regulation of phosphofructokinase, fructosebisphosphatases and pyruvate kinases; Multimodulation of enzyme activity; References; Chapter 6. Jean Bracket (1909-1988); References; Chapter 7. My Love Affair with Membranes. IntroductionEarly times -- University of British Columbia; Graduate School -- Berkeley and Rochester; Desert physiology -- Rochester; Manhattan Project- Rochester; The Rochester Atomic Energy Project -- my initiation into administration; Academic matters -- Rochester; Research -- Rochester; The Hospital for Sick Children -- Toronto; Research -- Toronto; Perspectives on research success; Essential companions; Family matters; References; Chapter 8. Never a dull moment. Peripatetics through the gardens of science and life; Childhood and family (1921-1939); Palestine and World War II (1939-1946). Hebrew University and War of Independence (1946-1948)Yale University: electrolytes (1952-1953); Weizmann Institute: nucleic acids (1953-1958); Mellon Institute: multicomponent systems (1958-1960); Weizmann Institute and NIH: nucleic acids and proteins (1960-1973); Current activities: chromatin and extreme halophiles (1973 -- 1989); Current thoughts (1989); References; Chapter 9. 'The Highest Grade of This Clarifying Activity Has No Limit' -- Confucius; From chemistry to biochemistry -- days in Cambridge with David Keilin; Early years in Shanghai; Total synthesis of insulin; Back to enzymes. |