Sergei Vinogradskii and the cycle of life : from the thermodynamics of life to ecological microbiology, 1850-1950 / Lloyd Ackert.
This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii's career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists,...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
[2013]
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| Series: | Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
v. 34. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii's career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists, and plant physiologists inscribed the concept of a ""cycle of life"" into their investigations. Their research transformed a longstanding notion into the fundamental approaches and concepts that underlay the new ecological disciplines that emerged in the 1920s. The book presents a re. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283742217 9400751982 9781283742214 9789400751989 |