Stories of Success
Personal Recollections. X

A history of biochemistry via personal recollections of well-known researchers in the field.

Giorgio Semenza (Volume editor)

9780444522467

Hardback, published 16 October 2007

374 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.74 kg

This book is the latest volume in the highly successful series Comprehensive Biochemistry. It provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the developments in the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. Volume 45 is essential reading for everyone from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scientists of their time.

Table of contents


Preface by Giorgio Semenza

Chapter 1
Odyssey of a Biochemist
by Osamu. Hayaishi

Chapter 2
A Voyage of the Inner Space of Cells
by Wolfgang Baumeister

Chapter 3
Fixed to Translation: A Recollection
by August Böck

Chapter 4
Denis Chapman : Oiling the Path to Biomembrane Structure
by Peter J. Quinn

Chapter 5
Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas, the First Metabolic Pathway: The Fate of Prominent Polish Biochemist Jakub Parnas
by Jolanta Barañska

Chapter 6
A Journey with Bleeding Time Factor
by Birgir Blombäck

Chapter 7
A Neuropathologist’s Diary
by Adriano Aguzzi

Chapter 8
An Autobiographical Sketch: 50 Years in Cancer Immunochemistry
by G.I. Abelev

Subject Areas: Molecular biology [PSD], Life sciences: general issues [PSA]