Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life From the Thermodynamics of Life to Ecological Microbiology, 1850-1950 /

• Main Author: Ackert, Lloyd. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 34
• Subjects: Science (General).; Science > History.; Ecology.; Science, general.; History of Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5198-9

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 Vinogradskiis career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemi...

Table of Contents:

• Bibliography Acknowledgements
• � Introduction
• � Part I. Plant Physiology
• Chapter 1. A Synthesis of Thermodynamics and Bioenergetics in Plant Physiology: The Investigation of a Moody Apprentice
• Part II Experiment and Natural History
• Chapter 2: The Exchange of Matter and the Transformation of Energy
• Chapter 3.� The Laboratory is Nature: Investigating the Cycle of Life under the Microscope
• Chapter 4. Free Nature in the Laboratory
• Part III. Ecology
• Chapter 5.� Vinogradskiis Transformation from Plant Physiologist to Ecologist, 1890-1920
• Chapter 6 - Soil Science and Russian Ecology
• Part IV.� French Agriculture
• Chapter 7.� The Master of Brie-Compte-Robert and his Direct Method: Translating the Cycle of Life into Ecology
• Chapter 8. Ecological Microbiology
• Part V. The Impact of Vinogradskiis Work
• Chapter 9.� Science is Ecological and Ecology is Scientific: The Uptake of Vinogradskiis Direct Methods
• Chapter 10. Vinogradskiis Reception in Russian and Soviet Microbiology Chapter 11. Conclusions.-� Bibliography.