Aaron Klug - A Long Way from Durban: A Biography

ISBN-13: 9781107147379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 378 str.

Kenneth C. Holmes; K. C. Holmes

Opis

The life and work of Aaron Klug, Nobel prize winner and one of the pioneers of structural molecular biology.

Recenzje

'… this book is a nice slice of scientific history (including, for a change, actual science) and a fairly comprehensive who's who of post-war British biology …' D. Cornish, The Biologist

Spis treści

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. From Durban to Birkbeck College: 1. Durban and Johannesburg; 2. Cape Town; 3. Cambridge; 4. The first visit to Israel; 5. Back to Cambridge; 6. Birkbeck-1; 7. Birkbeck-2; Part II. Science at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology: 8. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology; 9. Spherical virus structure; 10. Tobacco mosaic virus; 11. From Thon rings to modern dance; 12. Tomography; 13. Transfer RNA; 14. Chromatin and nucleosomes; 15. Zinc fingers; Part III. Duties and Rewards: 16. Peterhouse; 17. Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology; 18. Presidency of the Royal Society; 19. Ben Gurion University; 20. Prizes; 21. Envoi; Appendicies: Appendix 1. Aaron's Birthplace - Zhelva, Lithuania Mark Gevisser; Appendix 2. Diffraction; Appendix 3. Aaron Klug's scientific publications; Index.