ID | 007222 |
Call Number | 920/SNE |
Title Proper | Scientists and discoveries |
Language | ENG |
Author | Snedden, Robert |
Publication | Oxford, Heinemann Library, 2001. |
Description | 48p Red Spine |
Series | Microlife |
Note | Contains a history of microbiology from the first microscopes to the unravelling of DNA, the scientists and techniques involved. It examines the implications of scientific discoveries for humans and the living world of advances, thereby giving an insight into the development of scientific ideas. |
Note | The Jansens and the compound microscope Robert Hooke and his small drawings Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek and his little animals Edward Jenner and vaccination Schledien, Schwann and the theory of cells Louis Pasteur and the germ theory Pasteur and the end of spontaneous generation Pasteur and infectious diseases Ferdinand Cohn and the birth of bacteriology Joseph Lister and the birth of modern surgery Robert Koch : Pioneer of microbiology Paul Ehrlich : 'Prince of Science' Ehrlich and the magic bullets Alexander Fleming and antibiotics Martinus Beijerinck and the discovery of viruses Wendell Stanley and the crystal invaders Oswald Avery and the search for heredity Watson and Crick : Unravelling the helix Watson and Crick : Molecule model-making Stanley Prusiner's prisons Glossary |
Standard Number | 043109277X |
Price. Qualification | Rs.90(Pb) |
Classification Number | 920 |
Key Words | Microbiology ; Inventions ; Scientists ; Discoveries in science ; Medicine ; Microbiology - Biography ; UOI - Discoveries and inventions/explorations |