Architects of Structural Biology - Bragg, Perutz, Kendrew, Hodgkin (Hardcover)

Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern times. These three chemists and one physicist, all Nobel laureates, played a pivotal role in the creation of a new and pervasive branch of biology. This led in turn to major developments in medicine and to the treatment of diseases as a result of advances made in arguably one of the greatest centres of scientific research ever: the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which they helped to establish. Their work and that of their predecessors at the Royal Institution in London reflects the broader cultural, scientific and educational strength of the UK from the early 19th century onwards. The book also illustrates the nurturing of academic life in the collegiate system, exemplified by the activities of, and cross-fertilization within, a small Cambridge college.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	John Meurig Thomas (Former Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, London, and former Master of Peterhouse, and Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Professorial Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge,)
Dimensions:	241 x 162 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-885450-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Crystallography Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Molecular biology Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Physical chemistry > General
LSN:	0-19-885450-1
Barcode:	9780198854500

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