Proteins, enzymes, genes : the interplay of chemistry and biology

In this sweeping account of the emergence of biochemistry and molecular biology from the interplay between chemistry and biology, scientist-historian Joseph S. Fruton ranges from antiquity to the present time. He examines the institutional settings of the two disciplines and discusses their impact on medical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural practice. In this book a distinguished scientist-historian offers a critical account of how biochemistry and molecular biology emerged as major scientific disciplines from the interplay of chemical and biological ideas and practice. Joseph S. Fruton traces the historical development of these disciplines from antiquity to the present time, examines their institutional settings, and discusses their impact on medical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural practice.