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This popular account of the history of ferment takes the reader on a fascinating journey from its obscure origins in medieval medicine and alchemy to the modern concept of the enzyme. During the 19th century, the question of the nature of the ferment led to a long and bitter conflict between those that believed in a vital force peculiar to the living cell and those that looked for a more chemical explanation. The book takes an in-depth look at the events of 1897 when Eduard Buchner demonstrated that cell-free extracts of yeast could catalyze alcoholic fermentation, putting an end to "vitalism"
Fermentation --- Yeast. --- Enzymes. --- Biocatalysts --- Ferments --- Soluble ferments --- Catalysts --- Proteins --- Enzymology --- Nematospora --- Yeasts --- Edible fungi --- Leavening agents --- Yeast-free diet --- Biochemical engineering --- Chemistry --- Industrial microbiology --- Microbiological synthesis --- History.
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We are swamped with information and each day seems to bring new discoveries that must be considered. Never before in the history of science have so many scientists been as active as today. It has become a major problem for the expert just to keep up with the literature in his or her own field of research. Why, then, should experts and their poor students worry about the pioneers of microbiology, those half-forgotten scientists who a century ago devoted their lives to a new science that was on its way to revolutionizing medicine?With so many new facts and problems screaming for our attention, i
Microbiology --- Microbiologists --- Nobel Prizes --- Awards --- Biologists --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- History --- 579 --- History, 19th Century --- Nobel Prize --- Infectious Disease Medicine --- 579 Microbiology --- Prize, Nobel --- 19th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 19th Cent. History of Medicine --- 19th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 19th Century --- History of Medicine, 19th Cent. --- History, Nineteenth Century --- Medical History, 19th Cent. --- Medicine, 19th Cent. --- 19th Century History --- 19th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 19th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 19th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 19th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 19th --- Century Histories, Nineteenth --- Century History, 19th --- Century History, Nineteenth --- Histories, 19th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 19th Century --- Histories, Nineteenth Century --- History, 19th Cent. (Medicine) --- Nineteenth Century Histories --- Nineteenth Century History
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In this entertaining account of the origins of modern molecular biology, the lives of pioneering scientists in the field of nucleic acid research, and the discovery of DNA, Ulf Lagerkvist speaks not only to scientists but to all students and general readers with an interest in science. The author, whose career in the nucleic acid field began in the late 1940s, recreates historical episodes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and introduces for a modern audience the scientists whose discoveries revolutionized the field of biology. Knowledge of these pioneers as professionals and as human beings, Lagerkvist believes, may help us see modern problems in a new light and appreciate the greatness of the researchers who contributed to the foundations of molecular biology and biochemistry. Among these scientific pioneers was nineteenth-century biochemist Friedrich Miescher, discoverer of nuclein, the material now known as DNA. The book also explores early research into general problems of the chemistry of biological materials. Lagerkvist vividly describes the research of such influential scientists as Albrecht Kossel, another early leading figure; Emil Fischer, who received the Nobel Prize in 1902 for his work on carbohydrates and purines and was regarded as the foremost chemist of his time; P. A. Levene, known for his discoveries concerning the structure of nucleotides and the way these nucleic acid building blocks are linked to one another; and Oswald T. Avery, often considered the grandfather of molecular genetics.
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In a relatively brief but masterful recounting, Professor Ulf Lagerkvist traces the origins and seminal developments in the field of chemistry, highlighting the discoveries and personalities of the individuals who transformed the ancient myths of the Greeks, the musings of the alchemists, the mystique of phlogiston into the realities and the laws governing the properties and behavior of the elements; in short, how chemistry became a true science. A centerpiece of this historical journey was the triumph by Dmitri Mendeleev who conceived the Periodic Law of the Elements, the relation between the properties of the elements and their atomic weights but more precisely their atomic number. Aside from providing order to the elements known at the time, the law predicted the existence and atomic order of elements not then known but were discovered soon after.An underlying but explicit intent of Lagerkvist's survey is to address what he believes was a gross injustice in denying Mendeleev the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1905 and again in 1906. Delving into the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences'detailed records concerning the nominations, Lagerkvist reveals the judging criteria and the often heated and prejudicial arguments favoring and demeaning the contributions of the competing contenders of those years. Lagerkvist, who was a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and has participated in judging nominations for the chemistry prize, concludes “It is in the nature of the Nobel Prize that there will always be a number candidates who obviously deserve to be rewarded but never get the accolade” — Mendeleev was one of those.
Chemistry --- Nobel Prizes --- Periodic law --- Chemical elements. --- Elements, Chemical --- Chemical elements --- History. --- Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich, --- Менделеев, Дмитрий Иванович, --- Mendeleev, Dmitriĭ Ivanovich, --- Mendelejeff, D. I., --- Mendeleeff, D. I., --- Менделѣев, Дмитрій Иванович, --- Mendeli︠e︡ev, Dmitrīĭ Ivanovich, --- Mendělejev, Dimitrij Ivanovicč, --- Менделѣѣв, Д. И., --- Mendeli︠e︡i︠e︡v, D. I., --- Mendeljejev, Dmitrij Ivanovicč, --- Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich, --- Mendeleyev, D. I., --- Mendeleev, D. I. --- Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich, --- Mendelejew, D. J., --- Mendelejeff, D., --- Менделѣев, Д. --- Mendeli︠e︡ev, D. --- Mendeléiev, Dimitri I., --- Mendelejew, Dmitri Iwanowitsch, --- Mendelejew, D. I. --- Nobel Prize winners --- Laureates, Nobel --- Nobel laureates --- Nobelists --- Winners of Nobel Prizes --- Award winners --- History --- Periodic table of the elements --- Nobel Prize winners - History --- Nobel Prizes - History --- Chemistry - History
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