The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Commemorative Edition
Autor Horace Freeland Judsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1995
This commemorative edition, honoring the memory of the author who died in 2011, contains essays by his daughter Olivia Judson, Matthew Meselson, and Mark Ptashne and an obituary by Jason Pontin. It contains all the content added to previous editions, including essays on some of the principal historical figures involved, such as Rosalind Franklin, and a sketch of the further development of molecular biology in the era of recombinant DNA.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780879694784
ISBN-10: 0879694785
Pagini: 720
Ilustrații: illustrations, notes, index
Dimensiuni: 179 x 254 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1.34 kg
Ediția:Expanded
Editura: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
ISBN-10: 0879694785
Pagini: 720
Ilustrații: illustrations, notes, index
Dimensiuni: 179 x 254 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1.34 kg
Ediția:Expanded
Editura: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Recenzii
"A historian has mused that the memory of man is too frail a thread on which to hang history; Judson's achievement, in drawing out the memories of so many participants in the epic of molecular biology and weaving them into a single robust skein, is magisterial. His work fittingly commemorates a golden age which already seems as remote as that of Darwin and Huxley." Nature
"This reissue of a pioneering history of molecular biology, for some years out of print, is essentially a reprint of the first edition of 1979. Horace Judson has corrected a few minor errors (remarkably few for such a fact-filled book), given a sharper emphasis to Frederick Sangers' work on protein sequencing to reflect his (Judson's) conviction of its central importance, and added some personal details to a biographical sketch of Rosalind Franklin. Finally, an epilogue touches very briefly on developments in the 1970s that were the foundations for the subsequent vast expansion of molecular biologyEL. This epilogue obviously is not meant to bring Judson's original story up to the presentthat would take another large bookbut only to point readers to topics that Judson leaves for other historians to explore. The Eighth Day of Creation has aged well, like a good vintage, and its very good to have it available again." ISIS
"The revelations of modern biology make a remarkable human and scientific story, and it has never been told better than in Horace Freeland Judson's The Eighth Day of CreationEL. What is especially fortunate is that he is a graceful writer with a keen sense of the human as well as the scientific dramaEL. I finished the book with a great sense of elation and a deepened sense of admiration for what the human family, at its best, can accomplish." (Review of the First Edition) JEREMY BERNSTEIN, New York Times Book Review
"In his massive, marvelous history of molecular biologyEL Judson introduces us to many fiendishly clever experiments, some fi
"This reissue of a pioneering history of molecular biology, for some years out of print, is essentially a reprint of the first edition of 1979. Horace Judson has corrected a few minor errors (remarkably few for such a fact-filled book), given a sharper emphasis to Frederick Sangers' work on protein sequencing to reflect his (Judson's) conviction of its central importance, and added some personal details to a biographical sketch of Rosalind Franklin. Finally, an epilogue touches very briefly on developments in the 1970s that were the foundations for the subsequent vast expansion of molecular biologyEL. This epilogue obviously is not meant to bring Judson's original story up to the presentthat would take another large bookbut only to point readers to topics that Judson leaves for other historians to explore. The Eighth Day of Creation has aged well, like a good vintage, and its very good to have it available again." ISIS
"The revelations of modern biology make a remarkable human and scientific story, and it has never been told better than in Horace Freeland Judson's The Eighth Day of CreationEL. What is especially fortunate is that he is a graceful writer with a keen sense of the human as well as the scientific dramaEL. I finished the book with a great sense of elation and a deepened sense of admiration for what the human family, at its best, can accomplish." (Review of the First Edition) JEREMY BERNSTEIN, New York Times Book Review
"In his massive, marvelous history of molecular biologyEL Judson introduces us to many fiendishly clever experiments, some fi