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Author Campos, Luis A., author.

Title Radium and the secret of life / Luis A. Campos.

Publication Info. Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The birth of living radium -- Radium and the origin of life -- Radium and the mutation theory -- Radium genetics -- The gene irradiated -- Transmutations and disintegrations.
Summary This volume traces the half-life of the transmuting connection between radium and life to recover the forgotten story of the remarkably provocative and productive connections between radioactivity and the life sciences long before the dawn of molecular biology made such connections seem commonplace.
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Subject Radium.
Radium.
Genetics.
Genetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Campos, Luis A. Radium and the secret of life 9780226238272 (DLC) 2014032436 (OCoLC)887849442
ISBN 9780226238302 (electronic book)
022623830X (electronic book)
022623827X
9780226238272