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Dubos's classic biography of Louis Pasteur, originally published in
1960 and for several years out of print is once again made
available in this new and expanded hardcover edition. The original
work has been enlarged by more than forty illustrations and tables,
a new biographical sketch of Dubos, a glossary of technical terms
and a chronological outline of Pasteur's career. The book's
enduring appeal is a tribute both to its subject and to its author.
Few scientists so captured the public imagination as Louis Pasteur,
and fewer still had such a dramatic effect on everyday life. Dubos,
a Pulitzer prize winner, was a modern biographer almost ideally
suited to the task. A distinguished French-born microbiologist of
broad culture, Dubos had a deep appreciation for the power and
enduring significance of Pasteur's scientific work. To the more
personal dimensions of the biographer's task, Dubos brought his
keen insight into the wellsprings of human action, behavior, and
personality. He thus appreciated the full range of Pasteur's life,
including its philosophical, religious, and political dimensions.
Finally, Dubos' graceful writing style allowed him to convey the
excitement and significance of even the most technical aspects of
Pasteur's work.
Lake Mendota has often been called "the most studied lake in the
world. " Beginning in the "classic" period of limnology in the late
19th century and continuing through the present time, this lake has
been the subject of a wide variety of studies. Although many of
these studies have been published in accessible journals, a
significant number have appeared in local monographs and reports,
ephemeral documents, or poorly distributed journals. To date, there
has been no attempt at a synthetic treatment ofthe vast amount of
work that has been published. One intent of the present book is to
present a com prehensive compilation of the major early studies on
Lake Mendota and to examine how they impinge on important
present-day biological questions. In addition, this book presents a
summary of field and laboratory work carried out in my own
laboratory over a period of about 6 years and shows where
correlations with earlier work exist. The book should be ofinterest
to limnologists desiring a ready reference to data and published
papers on this important lake, to biogeochemists, ocean ographers,
and low-temperature geochemists interested in lakes as model sys
tems for global processes, and to lake managers interested in
understanding short-term and long-term changes in lake systems.
Although the major thrust ofthe present book is ecologicaland
environmental, sufficient background has been presented on other
aspects ofLake Mendota's limnology so that the book should also be
useful to nonbiologists."
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