Darwinian Evolution of Molecules: Physical and Earth-historical Perspective of the Origin of Life - Couverture rigide

Nakazawa, Hiromoto

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811087237 ISBN 13 : 9789811087233

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2018

Synopsis

Presents a step-by-step argument based on thermodynamics and facts of the Earth's history to help the reader to find an answer to the fundamental question: Why did life appear on the Earth?
Employs "the Darwinian evolution of molecules" model to facilitate a knowledge of when, where, and how life appeared on the Earth
Enhances the reader's understanding with the generous use of illustrations, including a phylogenetic tree illustrating "the Darwinian evolution of molecules" model

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À propos de l'auteur

Hiromoto Nakazawa is an emeritus fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, and a fellow of the Japan Geoscience Union. He is also a former chairman of The Clay Science Society of Japan (2001-2002). He devoted most of his research time to X-ray crystallography while at the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM), Japan. As a materials scientist, he has been awarded the Crystallographic Society of Japan Prize (1978) for the identification and study of new superstructures of iron sulfides using X-ray diffraction and high-resolution electron microscopy. He was also awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon as well as several other prizes for his invention of the scanning X-ray microscope using the X-ray guide tube (2000). His curiosity regarding the origin of life from his student days brought him to the study of clay minerals as materials at the interface between the inorganic and organic realms during his tenure as a managing researcher at NIRIM (1985-2000). While a professor at Tohoku University, Japan (2001), he commenced his experimental studies of the origin of life together with his students and subsequently proposed a new scenario for the origin of life on the Earth based on their recent results (2006, 2014). In 2011, he received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811087237
• ISBN 13: 9789811087233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 157
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