Scientific Legacy of Har Gobind Khorana - Total Synthesis and the Genetic Code

This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.

List of contents

Prologue; Preface; 1 Beginnings; 2 The Liverpool Years; 3 Swiss Interlude; 4 Through Cambridge to Vancouver; 5 The Genetic Code; 6 Total Synthesis of a Gene; 7 The Membrane Decades; 8 Later Years and Legacy; Acknowledgments; References; Index

About the author

Sahotra Sarkar is Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize–winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.

Product details

• Authors: Sahotra Sarkar, Sarkar Sahotra
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781839992322
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-232-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, molecular biology, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Genetics (non-medical), Biography: science, technology and medicine