Max Perutz And The Secret Of Life - Couverture rigide

Ferry, Georgina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0879697857 ISBN 13 : 9780879697853

Editeur : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S., 2007

Synopsis

Please note that this title is not for sale in the UK. Few scientists have thought more deeply about the nature of their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914-2002). Born in Vienna, Jewish by descent, lapsed Catholic by religion, he came to Cambridge in 1936 to join the lab of the legendary Communist thinker J.D. Bernal. There he began to explore the structures of the molecules that hold the secret of life. In 1940, he was interned and deported to Canada as an enemy alien, only to be brought back and set to work on a bizarre top secret war project. In 1947, he founded the small research group in which Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA: under his leadership it grew to become the world-famous Laboratory for Molecular Biology. Max himself explored the protein hemoglobin and his work, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1962, launched a new era of medicine, heralding today's astonishing advances in the genetic basis of disease. Max Perutz's story, wonderfully told by Georgina Ferry, brims with life. It has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of extraordinary characters. Max was demanding, passionate and driven but also humorous, compassionate and loving. Small in stature, he became a fearless mountain climber; drawing on his own experience as a refugee, he argued fearlessly for human rights; he could be ruthless but had a talent for friendship. An articulate and engaging advocate of science, he found new problems to engage his imagination until weeks before he died aged 88. Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Scenes from a Vienna Childhood; 2. 'It Was Cambridge That Made Me'; 3. 'The Most Dangerous Characters of All'; 4. Home and Homeland; 5. Mountains and Mahomet; 6. How Hemoglobin Was Not Solved; 7. Annus Mirabilis; 8. In Search of Solutions; 9. A Structure for Science - the LMB; 10. The Breathing Molecule; 11. Health and Disease; 12. Truth Always Wins; Select Bibliography; Notes; Glossary; Index. Note from the Publisher: The following title may be of interest: I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Georgina Ferry is a former staff editor on New Scientist, and contributor to Radio 4's Science Now. Her books include the acclaimed biography Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (1998); The Common Thread (2002, with Sir John Sulston) and A Computer called LEO (2003). She lives in Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879697857
• ISBN 13: 9780879697853
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible