What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Oxford Landmark Science) - Softcover

Pross, Addy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198784791 ISBN 13: 9780198784791

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2016

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Uses insights from the new field of systems chemistry to show how chemistry can become biology, and that Darwinian evolution is the expression of a deeper physical principle.

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Addy Pross received a Ph.D in Organic Chemistry from Sydney University in 1970. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and a recognized authority in the area of chemical reactivity to which he contributed with the highly cited and acclaimed Pross-Shaik model of chemical reactivity. He has held visiting positions in many universities word-wide, including the University of Lund, Stanford University, Rutgers University, University of California at Irvine, University of Padova, the Australian National University Canberra, and Sydney University. He has served on the editorial board of chemical and biological journals and a variety of academic management boards. In recent years he has directed his attention to the biological arena where he has applied his expertise in chemical reactivity to the Origin of Life problem and the broader question of the problematic chemistry-biology interface.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198784791
• ISBN 13: 9780198784791
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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