Daniel M Davis

Broschiertes Buch

The Compatibility Gene

Beschreibung

From the British scientific pioneers who struggled to understand the mysteries of transplants to the Swiss zoologist who devised a new method of assessing potential couples' compatibility based on the smell of worn T-shirts, the author traces a true scientific revolution in our understanding of the human body.

Autor

Daniel M. Davis is director of research at the University of Manchester's Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research and a visiting professor at Imperial College, London. He has published over 100 academic papers, including papers in Nature and Science, and Scientific American, and lectures all over the world, including at the Royal Institution. He has previously won the Oxford University Press Science Writing Prize, and has given numerous interviews for national and international media, including The Times, Guardian, Metro, and National Public Radio (USA). A major feature on his research was published in The Times. Experiments filmed in his laboratory were shown in the BBC series 'The History of Medicine' (2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9780241956755
• ISBN-10: 0241956757
• Artikelnr.: 40603927

Rezensionen

Who am I? What makes me different from everyone else? Daniel Davis recounts the remarkable science that has answered one version of these questions Steven Pinker