Architects of Structural Biology
Bragg, Perutz, Kendrew, Hodgkin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 28 February 2020
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198854500 |
| ISBN10: | 0198854501 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 322 pages |
| Size: | 241x162x21 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 45 grayscale and 36 color line figures, and 38 grayscale and 19 color halftone figures |
| 191 |
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Short description:
This is a history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four Nobel laureates who played a pivotal role in the creation of a new and prevalent branch of biology. This led to major medical advances in one of the greatest centres of scientific research: the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which they helped to establish.
Long description:
Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern times. These three chemists and one physicist, all Nobel laureates, played a pivotal role in the creation of a new and pervasive branch of biology. This led in turn to major developments in medicine and to the treatment of diseases as a result of advances made in arguably one of the greatest centres of scientific research ever: the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, which they helped to establish. Their work and that of their predecessors at the Royal Institution in London reflects the broader cultural, scientific and educational strength of the UK from the early 19th century onwards. The book also illustrates the nurturing of academic life in the collegiate system, exemplified by the activities of, and cross-fertilization within, a small Cambridge college.
An excellent book for all interested in the history of science.
An excellent book for all interested in the history of science.
Table of Contents:
Max Perutz, John Kendrew, Peterhouse and the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory
The Birth and Initial Exploitation of X-ray Diffraction
W. H. Bragg and his Creation of a World-Famous Centre for X-ray Crystallography at the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory
A Dispute Between the Cavendish and Caltech: The Emergence and Ubiquity of the Alpha Helix
Perutz and Kendrew: The Heroic Era of Structural Molecular Biology
Sir Lawrence Bragg at the RI (1953-1966) and the Determination of the First Three-Dimensional Structure of an Enzyme at the DFRL (1965)
Lawrence Bragg and Linus Pauling: Comparisons and Rivalries
Biographical Sketches
Contributions of Cambridge College Life to Structural Biology: Peterhouse as an Exemplar
The Summing Up: The Astonishing Successes of the LMB, and the Dawn of a New Structural Biological Era
The Birth and Initial Exploitation of X-ray Diffraction
W. H. Bragg and his Creation of a World-Famous Centre for X-ray Crystallography at the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory
A Dispute Between the Cavendish and Caltech: The Emergence and Ubiquity of the Alpha Helix
Perutz and Kendrew: The Heroic Era of Structural Molecular Biology
Sir Lawrence Bragg at the RI (1953-1966) and the Determination of the First Three-Dimensional Structure of an Enzyme at the DFRL (1965)
Lawrence Bragg and Linus Pauling: Comparisons and Rivalries
Biographical Sketches
Contributions of Cambridge College Life to Structural Biology: Peterhouse as an Exemplar
The Summing Up: The Astonishing Successes of the LMB, and the Dawn of a New Structural Biological Era
