Stories of Success
Personal Recollections. X
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This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume 45 is essential reading for everyone from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scientists of their time.
Key Features
* Contributors are distinguished scientists in the field
* Unique series of personal recollections
* Presents scientific research in a historical perspective
* Unique series of personal recollections
* Presents scientific research in a historical perspective
Readership
Biochemistry researchers and students.
Table of Contents
- Table of contents
Preface by Giorgio Semenza
Chapter 1
Odyssey of a Biochemist
by Osamu. Hayaishi
Chapter 2
A Voyage of the Inner Space of Cells
by Wolfgang Baumeister
Chapter 3
Fixed to Translation: A Recollection
by August Böck
Chapter 4
Denis Chapman : Oiling the Path to Biomembrane Structure
by Peter J. Quinn
Chapter 5
Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas, the First Metabolic Pathway: The Fate of Prominent Polish Biochemist Jakub Parnas
by Jolanta Barañska
Chapter 6
A Journey with Bleeding Time Factor
by Birgir Blombäck
Chapter 7
A Neuropathologist’s Diary
by Adriano Aguzzi
Chapter 8
An Autobiographical Sketch: 50 Years in Cancer Immunochemistry
by G.I. Abelev
Product details
- No. of pages: 374
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier Science 2007
- Published: October 16, 2007
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- eBook ISBN: 9780080553573
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444522467
About the Series Volume Editor
Giorgio Semenza
Affiliations and Expertise
Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland and
University of Milan, Italy