What Is Life? : Five Great Ideas in Biology

基本信息

Edited by：Paul Nurse

Publisher：WW Norton

Published：02 Feb 2021

Language：English

Format Hardback：160 pages

ISBN10：0393541150

ISBN13：9780393541151

Weight：309 g

Dimensions：150 x 218 x 18（mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

著名生物学家保罗·纳斯的职业生涯揭示了活细胞是如何工作的。《生命是什么?》他的挑战是用一种读者都能理解的方式来描述活着意味着什么。

这是一个共同的发现之旅;护士阐述了支撑生物学的五个伟大理念:细胞、基因、自然选择的进化、化学生命和信息生命。他介绍了取得最重要进展的科学家，并利用他在实验室内外的个人经验，与我们分享挑战、幸运的突破和发现的激动人心的顿悟时刻。

Nurse怀着对生命的丰富和对生物学在我们这个时代所扮演的紧迫角色的感受而愉快地写作。为了应对我们所有人今天面临的挑战——气候变化、大流行、生物多样性丧失和粮食安全——我们所有人都理解生命是什么至关重要。

The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand.

It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology-the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. He introduces the scientists who made the most important advances, and, using his personal experiences in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery.

Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and with a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. To survive the challenges that face us all today-climate change, pandemic, loss of biodiversity and food security-it is vital that we all understand what life is.

作者简介

保罗·纳斯爵士是伦敦弗朗西斯·克里克研究所的所长。他曾担任洛克菲勒大学校长、英国皇家学会主席和大英博物馆的受托人。他是2001年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的获得者。

Sir Paul Nurse is director of the Francis Crick Institute in London. He previously served as president of Rockefeller University, president of the Royal Society, and trustee of the British Museum. He is a recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.