Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion - Couverture rigide

Pollack, Gerald

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0962689505 ISBN 13 : 9780962689505

Editeur : Ebner and Sons Publishers, 1990

Synopsis

An award-winning book that topples the widely accepted edifice of understanding on how muscles contract, replacing it with a simpler construct that better fits the evidence. This is a beautifully produced, single-authored text by one of our more thoughtful, if unconventional, authorities on the mechanism of muscular contraction. Clearly and elegantly written, and with a charm and grace not often seen in modern scientific writing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Professor Gerald Pollack is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal, WATER and is recognized as an international leader in science and engineering. The University of Washington Faculty chose Pollack, in 2008, to receive their highest annual distinction: the Faculty Lecturer Award. He was the 2012 recipient of the coveted Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics of dissipative systems. He has received an honorary doctorate from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named an Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Srpska Academy. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He recently received an NIH Director's Transformative R01 Award for his work on water, and maintains an active laboratory in Seattle.Pollack's interests have ranged broadly, from biological motion and c

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ebner and Sons Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0962689505
• ISBN 13: 9780962689505
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Brockmeyer Julie
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible