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Author Ackert, Lloyd

Title Sergei Vinogradskii and the cycle of life : from the thermodynamics of life to ecological microbiology, 1850-1950 / Lloyd Ackert
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages)
Series Archimedes, 1385-0180 ; v. 34
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 34.
Contents Part 1. Plant Physiology -- A Synthesis of Thermodynamics and Bioenergetics in Plant Physiology: The Investigation of a Moody Apprentice -- The Exchange of Matter and the Transformation of Energy -- Part 2. Experiment and Natural History -- The Laboratory is Nature: Investigating the Cycle of Life Under the Microscope -- Free Nature in the Laboratory -- Part 3. Ecology -- Vinogradskii's Transformation from Plant Physiologist to Ecologist, 1890-1920 -- Soil Science and Russian Ecology -- Part 4. French Agriculture -- The Master of Brie-Compte-Robert and His "Direct Method:" Translating the Cycle of Life into Ecology -- Ecological Microbiology -- Part 5. The Impact of Vinogradskii's Work -- Science is Ecological and Ecology is Scientific: The Uptake of Vinogradskii's Direct Methods -- Vinogradskii's Reception in Russian and Soviet Microbiology -- Conclusions
Summary This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii's career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists, and plant physiologists inscribed the concept of a ""cycle of life"" into their investigations. Their research transformed a longstanding notion into the fundamental approaches and concepts that underlay the new ecological disciplines that emerged in the 1920s. The book presents a re
Analysis Science (General)
Ecology
History of Science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Winogradsky, S. (Serge), 1856-1953.
SUBJECT Winogradsky, S. (Serge), 1856-1953 fast
Winogradsky, Serge 1856-1953 gnd
Subject Ecologists -- Biography
Microbiologists -- Biography
Ecology -- History
Microbiology -- History
NATURE -- Ecology.
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Ecologists
Ecology
Microbiologists
Microbiology
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789400751989
9400751982