Radium and the secret of life
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Word Count
94,500 words, Guess
Page Count
378 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveradiumsecretofli0000camp
- ISBN-10022623827X
- ISBN-139780226238272
- Library of Congress Control Number2014032436
- OCLC Control Number887849442
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780226238272
- Better World Books789-BAC-518
- Open LibraryOL27198701M
Classifications
- DDC572.8/38
- LCCQD181.R1 C36 2015
- LCCQD181.R1C36 2015
Description
Radium and the Secret of Life highlights previously unknown interconnections between the history of the early radioactive sciences and the sciences of heredity. Equating the transmutation of radium with the biological transmutation of living species, biologists saw in metabolism and mutation properties that reminded them of the new element. These initially provocative metaphoric links between radium and life proved remarkably productive and ultimately led to key biological insights into the origin of life, the nature of heredity, and the structure of the gene. Radium and the Secret of Life recovers a forgotten history of the connections between radioactivity and the life sciences that existed long before the dawn of molecular biology.
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