1: A New Home for a Career
2: Laboratory Life in Cambridge
3: Progress Under Pressure
4: New Moves
5: Arrivals and Partings
6: The "Great Work"
7: Relocations and Dismutations
8: Main Routes and Carriers
9: Full Circle
10: Reflections
"This is not only a study of Kreb's research, it is also a
comprehensive biography of Kreb's personal as well as scientific
life....comprehensive....excellent....Holmes gives a penetrating
analysis of Kreb's mode of research, its strength and its
limitations. These two volumes represent an extraordinary
achievement. The story of both the man and the science is full and
rewarding....these volumes, taken together, form one of the
greatest of scientific
biographies....I know of nothing in the least comparable with
Holmes's achievement here, in its depth and breadth." --Nature
"Volume 1 covers Krebs's early life and education, including the
beginnings of his research career....Volume 2 covers the time from
his arrival in England to publication of the paper on the citric
acid cycle in 1937....These volumes have much to say to specialist
and nonspecialist alike about the craft of history and the nature
of twentieth-century science." --American Historical Review
"In the second volume of this biography Holmes maintains a tone and
emphasis equal to that which he established in the first. An
important contribution to the literature on the creative process. A
well-referenced study, recommended for advanced undergraduate
through faculty." --Choice
From reviews of Vol. 1: "In this large first volume of what will be
a colossal biography, Holmes reconstructs the education and early
career of a remarkable scientist with equally remarkable clarity,
comprehensiveness, and detail....This magnificent biography
demonstrates, as few books do, the intimate relations between
personality and science." --Science
"A remarkable and detailed account of a significant period in the
development of biochemistry, reflected in the work of a major
'architect'..." --JAMA
"Meticulous and superb scholarship-grounded in laboratory
notebooks, correspondence, published scientific papers,
biographical materials, and interviews...." --Journal of the
History of Biology
"This is not only a study of Kreb's research, it is also a
comprehensive biography of Kreb's personal as well as scientific
life....comprehensive....excellent....Holmes gives a penetrating
analysis of Kreb's mode of research, its strength and its
limitations. These two volumes represent an extraordinary
achievement. The story of both the man and the science is full and
rewarding....these volumes, taken together, form one of the
greatest of scientific
biographies....I know of nothing in the least comparable with
Holmes's achievement here, in its depth and breadth." --Nature
"Volume 1 covers Krebs's early life and education, including the
beginnings of his research career....Volume 2 covers the time from
his arrival in England to publication of the paper on the citric
acid cycle in 1937....These volumes have much to say to specialist
and nonspecialist alike about the craft of history and the nature
of twentieth-century science." --American Historical Review
"In the second volume of this biography Holmes maintains a tone and
emphasis equal to that which he established in the first. An
important contribution to the literature on the creative process. A
well-referenced study, recommended for advanced undergraduate
through faculty." --Choice
From reviews of Vol. 1: "In this large first volume of what will be
a colossal biography, Holmes reconstructs the education and early
career of a remarkable scientist with equally remarkable clarity,
comprehensiveness, and detail....This magnificent biography
demonstrates, as few books do, the intimate relations between
personality and science." --Science
"A remarkable and detailed account of a significant period in the
development of biochemistry, reflected in the work of a major
'architect'..." --JAMA
"Meticulous and superb scholarship-grounded in laboratory
notebooks, correspondence, published scientific papers,
biographical materials, and interviews...." --Journal of the
History of Biology
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