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A Documentary History of Biochemistry 1770-1940
A Documentary History of Biochemistry 17701940 Author:Mikulas Teich, Dorothy M. Needham This volume is intended as the standard of biochemistry, covering the period from its beginnings in the work of Priestley and Lavoisier to its final flourish before the new science of molecular biology split from it in the 1940s. Each of the book's seven sections is a chronological narrative history of a distinct branch of biochemistry. In each ... more »section the author bases his insights into the development of the new science on scores of substantial extracts from the most important books and research papers in the subject's history.« less