Life''s Ratchet - How Molecular Machines Extract Order From Chaos

Informationen zum Autor Peter M. Hoffmann is a professor of physics and materials science at Wayne State University in Michigan and the founder and director of the university's Biomedical Physics program. He lives in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan. Klappentext Life, Hoffman argues, emerges from the random motions of atoms filtered through the sophisticated structures of our evolved machinery. People are essentially giant assemblies of interacting nanoscale machines. How the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine-and to life itself Zusammenfassung How the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine-and to life itself

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hoffman, Peter Hoffmann, Peter M. Hoffmann
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780465022533
• ISBN: 978-0-465-02253-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 243 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology