1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910343858503321

Autore

Neuhausse, Richerd

Titolo

Lehrbuch der Mikrophotographie / von Richard Neuhauss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Braunschweig : H. Bruhn, 1890

Descrizione fisica

IV, 272 p., III c. di tav. : ill. ; 25 cm

Locazione

DBV

Collocazione

U VI 51

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967260703321

Autore

Bünning Erwin <1906-1990.>

Titolo

Ahead of his time, Wilhelm Pfeffer : early advances in plant biology / / by Erwin Bunning ; translated by Helmut William Pfeffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, Canada, : Carleton University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-282-86400-9

9786612864001

0-7735-7357-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Carleton science series ; ; #1

Disciplina

581/.092

B

Soggetti

Botanists - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Wilhelm Pfeffer.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Translator's Note""; ""Foreword""; ""1. Introduction and Some Important Dates in Pfeffer's Life""; ""2. Basic Perception of Natural Science""; ""a) A Life Devoted to Science""; ""b) All Processes of Life Have a Physical Explanation""; ""c) The Complexity of Life's Processes Is Often



Overlooked""; ""d) Biological Structures Do Not Have Sharp Boundaries. There Is no ""Realization of An Idea""""; ""3. Pharmacy - Chemistry - Botany - Physiology - Cell Biology - Molecular Biology""; ""a) In the Pharmacy""; ""b) Botanist""; ""c) Physiology""

""d) Molecular Biology, Micelles, Macro-Molecules"" ""e) Only a Laboratory Botanist?""; ""4. Mimosa, Staminal Filaments, Osmometer, Plasma Membrane""; ""a) From Staminal Filaments to the Osmometer""; ""b) The Plasma Membrane""; ""c) The Contractile Cell""; ""5. The Plasma Membrane � ""The Gate Keeper in the Service of the Protoplast""""; ""a) Properties of the Plasma Membrane""; ""b) Advances and Reversals after Pfeffer. Membranes Play an Active Role""; ""6. The Single-Celled Organism Has the Ability to Do Everything. A Few Letters Are Adequate for the Genetic Code""

""7. Sensitivities of Single-Celled Organisms"" ""8. Triggering within the Organism""; ""a) ""Stimulation""""; ""b) ""Senses""""; ""9. Regulation and Feedback in the Organism""; ""a) Feedback, Law of Mass Action""; ""b) Adaptation of Enzyme Formation to the Substrate""; ""c) Oscillations about Equilibrium""; ""10. Activation, Regulation, Feedback Applied to the Technology Used for Physiological Studies""; ""11. Energetics""; ""a) There is no Special Vital Force""; ""b) Life without Oxygen""; ""c) Energy Conversion of the Cell at Rest""; ""Publications by Pfeffer""

Sommario/riassunto

How a caribou population went from the brink of extinction in the 1950s to the largest herd in the world in the late 1980s - and whether it can survive today's environmental changes.