Radium and the Secret of Life

Zusammenfassung Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death! many chemists! physicians! botanists! and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. This book recovers a forgotten history of the connections between radioactivity and the life sciences that existed long before the dawn of molecular biology.

Product details

• Authors: Luis A. Campos, Campos Luis A.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2015
• EAN: 9780226238272
• ISBN: 978-0-226-23827-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Inorganic chemistry; SCIENCE / Chemistry / Inorganic, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical biology