The code of life / [Ernest Borek].

  • Ernest Borek
Date:
1965
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    The Code Of Life Ernest Borek Almost one hundred years after Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk, stated the fruits of his patient labor which are known today as Mendel's Laws of Heredity, Dr. Marshall Niren- berg, a young biochemist of the United States Public Health Service, revealed in 1961 at the Fifth International Con gress of Biochemistry in Moscow the first letter of the genetic alphabet. That century's scientific probing, struggles, and triumphs are the sub ject of this book. It is a compelling story authoritatively told by a skilled writer who was an eyewitness and par ticipant for a quarter of a century in the search for knowledge about the chemical mechanisms of life. Only someone with the author's expert knowledge of the field and skill in writing could open today's biochemical laboratories to the lay reader. Dr. Borek, the winner of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Award for his earlier book, The Atoms Within Us, takes the reader into the labora tory of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the foremost follower of Mendel, and of Friedrich Miescher, the patient Swiss chemist who discovered nucleic acids. (Continued on back flap) jÄoütV
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