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1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Carleton science series ; # 1 |
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Carleton science series ; # 1.
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| Contents |
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 |
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D) Molecular Biology, Micelles, Macro-Moleculese) 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 |
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7. Sensitivities of Single-Celled Organisms8. 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 |
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D) An Organism Does Not Have a Closed System of Energy12. Endogenous Diurnal and Annual Periodicity -- a) Circadian Leaf Movements -- b) Hereditary or Conditioned Behaviour? The Darwin-Pfeffer Controversy -- c) The Self-regulatory Periodicity of Inherent Factors -- d) Advances and Reversals after Pfeffer -- e) Self-regulation of Annual Periodicity -- 13. Correlations: The Study of Irrelevant Details with Unexpected Consequences -- 14. Flaws in Literary Style -- 15. Purkinje -- J. MÃ?ller -- Helmholtz -- Sachs -- Pfeffer |
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16. The Spread of PfeffergewÃ?chse [Pepper Plants] throughout the Worlda) Pfeffer's 265 Students -- b) The High Repute of Botany in Germany at the Turn of the Century -- 17. Where Did This Great Spirit Originate? His Character -- a) The Ancestors -- b) Character Traits -- 18. Duties within the University -- a) General -- b) Hermann Ullrich : Reminiscences on Studies with Pfeffer (a Personal Report) -- 19. Honours and a Sad End -- a) Honours -- b) Pessimism and Depression -- c) 1918-1920 -- d) The Legacy -- 20. In Retrospect -- 21. Epilogue -- Notes |
| Notes |
Translation of: Wilhelm Pfeffer : Apotheker, Chemiker, Botaniker, Physiologe, 1845-1920 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pfeffer, W. (Wilhelm), 1845-1920
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| SUBJECT |
Pfeffer, W. (Wilhelm), 1845-1920 fast |
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Botanists -- Germany -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
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Botanists
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Plantkunde.
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Fysiologen.
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90208960 |
| ISBN |
9780773573574 |
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0773573577 |
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1282864009 |
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9781282864009 |
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9786612864001 |
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6612864001 |
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