British Biochemists - J. B. S. Haldane, Dorothy Hodgkin, Hans Adolf Krebs, Joseph Needham, Jack Drummond, Piers Nash, Richard A. Collins (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: J. B. S. Haldane, Dorothy Hodgkin, Hans Adolf Krebs, Joseph Needham, Jack Drummond, Piers Nash, Richard A. Collins, Martyn Jope, Walter Thomas James Morgan, Paul Nurse, Michael Berridge, Anthony Pawson, Peter D. Mitchell, Denis Alexander, Richard Sykes, Arthur Gamgee, Richard J. Roberts, R. John Ellis, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Ewan Birney, Victor Darley-Usmar, William Dobinson Halliburton, Dorothy Jordan Lloyd, Albert Neuberger, Jean Thomas, Ernest Kennaway, Biochemical Society, Derek Blake, Charles Dodds, Malcolm Dixon, Douglas Kell, John Cairns, Guy Salvesen, Adrian John Brown, Norman Pirie, Frederick Walker Mott, Michael Neuberger, Patricia Clarke, Gerard Fairtlough, Marjory Stephenson, Alan Ashworth, Mary Bernheim, Judy Armitage, Louise Johnson, Keith Dalziel, Winifred Watkins, Nick Lane, Chris J. Leaver, John E. Amoore, Nicholas Lydon. Excerpt: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (5 November 1892 - 1 December 1964), known as Jack (but who used 'J.B.S.' in his printed works), was a British-born Indian geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics. Haldane was born in Oxford to physiologist John Scott Haldane and Louisa Kathleen Haldane (nee Trotter), and descended from an aristocratic intellectual Scottish family (See Haldane family). His younger sister, Naomi, became a writer. His uncle was Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, politician and one time Secretary of State for War; his aunt was the author Elizabeth Haldane. His father was a scientist, a philosopher and a Liberal, and his mother was a Conservative. Haldane took interest in his father's work very early in his childhood. It was the result of this lifelong study of the natural world and his devotion to empirical evidence that he felt atheism was the only r...