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Includes bibliographical references and index A look ahead -- Lavoisier : the flame of life -- Bichat : tissues -- Wohler and Liebig : makable by man -- Schleiden and Schwann : the cell -- Pasteur : life is a germ -- Fischer and Buchner : essences of life -- Roux and Driesch : halves and wholes -- De Vries and Mendel : heredity and units -- Morgan : the line-up of heredity -- Muller : mutations and the new -- Beadle and Tatum : of molds and men -- The veritable stuff of life -- Crick and Watson : DNA, a helix -- Ochoa and Kornberg : the synthesis of RNA and DNA -- DNA's ingenious mechanisms -- Pauling and Sanger : the proteins, another coil -- Four = Twenty = Infinity -- New world -- Cells into tissues - Szent-Györgyi and the Huxleys : sliding coils -- The coil of the future

Author

Drawings by Patricia M. Jackson

Publisher

New York: Knopf

Published

1961

Language

EN

Subjects

Science, History, Biology