Historical Adventures in Scientific Discovery: Microbiology/Biochemistry

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2009-02-12

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https://hdl.handle.net/2022/3358

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Recent textbooks are generally deficient in respect to the history of major discoveries in microbiology/biochemistry. These "Historical Adventures" focus on the backgrounds and contributions of a number of relatively unknown pioneering investigators, as well as some of the familiar "giants." This publication is part of "An Experiment in Scientific Biography". A companion part, "Associations with distinguished scientists ..." can be accessed at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/2022/1083/1/Gestfinal.pdf.

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ERRATUM: on p.87 bottom, delete [see Figure 1].

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history of microbiology, medical microbiology, penicillin, microbial genetics, molecular biology, bacterial metabolism, bacteriophage, Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis, bioenergetics, photosynthesis, Robert Hooke, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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