Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction: Respiration, Phosphorylation and Mechanism
Chapter 2 From Physiology to Biochemistry: Respiration and Oxidation, 1600 to 1900
Chapter 3 Relating Phosphorylation, Respiration and Oxidation, 1900-1945
Chapter 4: Emergence of the Field of Cell Bioenergetics, 1945-1960
Chapter 5: Defining the Mechanism, 1960-1977
Chapter 6: Discovering Photosynthesis
Chapter 7: Elucidating the Photosynthetic Light Reaction
Chapter 8: The Impact of Protein Technology, 1977-1997
Chapter 9: The Search for Mechanism

References
Index

About the Author

John N. Prebble is an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway, University of London and Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry in the School of Biological Sciences.

Reviews

On the whole, Searching for a Mechanism presents the rich history of bioenergetics in a detailed and well-organised way and it is a comprehensive and accessible source for any researcher who wants to learn about the history of bioenergetics. Biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and historians and philosophers of the life sciences will all find the book useful.
*Özlem Yilmaz, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences*