Nobel Centennial Chronicle: Metabolism

Author: Chen Yaoquan
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: Starting from "The Transition from Popular Talk," it popularly introduces the metabolic processes of substances and plant photosynthesis, emphasizing the achievements of many Nobel laureates, such as Emil Fischer's three consecutive "strikes" in the research of nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates, the Cori couple's exploration of the metabolic processes of carbohydrates, and W?hler's understanding of chlorophyll, etc. It is both highly scientific and highly readable. The book tells the "life stories" within organisms in a wonderful "chemical language."