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This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume...
Other Authors: | Semenza, G., 1928-, ScienceDirect (Online service) |
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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier,
2007.
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 343 pages, 11 unnumbered page of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). |
Series: |
Comprehensive biochemistry ;
v. 45. Comprehensive biochemistry. |
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Summary: |
This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume 45 is essential reading for everyone from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scientists of their time. * Contributors are distinguished scientists in the field * Unique series of personal recollections * Presents scientific research in a historical perspective. |
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Item Description: |
This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume 45 is essential reading for everyone from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scientists of their time. * Contributors are distinguished scientists in the field * Unique series of personal recollections * Presents scientific research in a historical perspective. Table of contents -- Preface by Giorgio Semenza -- Chapter 1 -- Odyssey of a Biochemist -- by Osamu. Hayaishi -- Chapter 2 -- A Voyage of the Inner Space of Cells -- by Wolfgang Baumeister -- Chapter 3 -- Fixed to Translation: A Recollection -- by August B̲ck -- Chapter 4 -- Denis Chapman : Oiling the Path to Biomembrane Structure -- by Peter J. Quinn -- Chapter 5 -- Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas, the First Metabolic Pathway: The Fate of Prominent Polish Biochemist Jakub Parnas -- by Jolanta Barask̨a -- Chapter 6 -- A Journey with Bleeding Time Factor -- by Birgir Blombck̃ -- Chapter 7 -- A Neuropathologists Diary -- by Adriano Aguzzi -- Chapter 8 -- An Autobiographical Sketch: 50 Years in Cancer Immunochemistry -- by G.I. Abelev. Includes bibliographical references and index. Elsevier ScienceDirect All Books. |
Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 343 pages, 11 unnumbered page of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780444522467 0444522468 9780080553573 0080553575 |
ISSN: |
0069-8032 ; |