Authors:Fruton, J.S.,
Publisher: Brill
Keywords: science, medicine, library, history, process, vital, chemical, fermentation
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 9004152687
ISBN-13: 9789004152687

This book is a brief history of the centuries-old fascination with the process of alcoholic fermentation, the debates about its nature, and its elucidation during the early twentieth century.

Author: Joseph Fruton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: biochemist, skeptical
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1992-05-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0674810775
ISBN-13: 9780674810778

An eminent pioneer of modern protein chemistry looks back on six decades in biochemical research and education to advance stimulating thoughts about science--how it is practiced, how it is explained, and how its history is written. Taking the title of his book from Robert Boyle’s classic, The Sceptical Chymist (1661), and Joseph Needham’s The Sceptical Biologist (1929), Joseph Fruton brings his own skeptical vision to bear on how chemistry and biology interact to describe living systems. Scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists will seize upon the questions Fruto