Noel G Coley, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Published online: February 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003077
A history of biochemistry from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, revealing some of the problems faced by biochemists seeking chemical explanations for biological phenomena and introducing some origins of modern biochemistry.
Keywords: photosynthesis; cell theory; metabolism; enzymes; nucleoproteins; biological oxidation
| Further Reading | |
| book Coley NG (1973) From Animal Chemistry to Biochemistry. Amersham, UK: Hulton. | |
| book Florkin M and Stotz EH (1972–1979) Comprehensive Biochemistry, sect. VI, vols 30–33. Amsterdam: Elsevier. | |
| book Fruton JS (1990) Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. | |
| book Holmes FL (1974) Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Needham DM (1971) Machina Carnis; The Biochemistry of Muscular Contraction in its Historical Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Needham J (ed.) (1970) The Chemistry of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Neuberger A and Deenen LM van (eds) (1983–1997) Comprehensive Biochemistry, vols 35–38, 40. Amsterdam: Elsevier. | |
| book Olby R (1994) The Path to the Double Helix: the Discovery of DNA (Reprint of 1974 edn with additions). New York: Dover. | |
| book Teich M and Needham DM (1992) A Documentary History of Biochemistry 1770–1940. Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press. | |
| book Weatherall M and Kamminga H (1992) Dynamic Science: Biochemistry in Cambridge, 1898–1949. Cambridge: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. | |
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