Radium and the secret of life
Auteur :
Campos, Luis A.
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226238272
Date de publication :
3 avr. 2015
Dimensions :
2,4 x 1,6 x 0,3 cm
Poids :
737 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. This book recovers a forgotten history of the connections between radioactivity and the life sciences that existed long before the dawn of molecular biology.