Max Perutz and the secret of life / Georgina Ferry.

New York : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008.

xii, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scenes from a Vienna childhood -- 'It was Cambridge that made me' -- 'The most dangerous characters of all' -- Home and homeland -- Mountains and Mahomet -- How haemoglobin was not solved -- Annus mirabilis -- In search of solutions -- A structure for science: the LMB -- The breathing molecule -- Health and disease -- Truth always wins.