Addy Pross (Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gu

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What is Life?

How Chemistry Becomes Biology

Beschreibung

Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrà dinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' Scientists have puzzled over it ever since. Addy Pross 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Landmark Science
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 166g
• ISBN-13: 9780198784791
• ISBN-10: 0198784791
• Artikelnr.: 44492854