Germ Stories - Hardcover

Arthur Kornberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1891389513 ISBN 13: 9781891389511

Publisher: University Science Books, 2007

Synopsis

"I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales." So begins this charming collection of poems written by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Arthur Kornberg to help us learn about the germs that help and harm us. These rollicking, entertaining, and informative poems have been illustrated with witty and amusing watercolors and the book also contains electron micrographs and a glossary for the child who wants to go deeper into the world of microbiology.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959 for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of DNA. In that same year he founded the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine where, as professor emeritus, he continued to teach until his recent death in late October. Dr. Kornberg is the author of numerous textbooks and an autobiography, For the Love of Enzymes: The Odyssey of a Biochemist, and The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures. His son, Roger, won the Nobel prize in 2006.

Review:

"Humorous yet informative." --Science, December, 2007

"A delight to child and adult." --Nature, December, 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: University Science Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1891389513
• ISBN 13: 9781891389511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 70
• Illustrator: Adam Alaniz