The Kinetic Basis of Molecular Biology

New York: Wiley, 1954. Hardcover quarto with white dj; vii, 874 pages illustrations 24 cm Fine copy in a good+ jacket. Pages clean and binding tight. DJ has 1 x 1 cm hole to spine, and approx. 1 cm rip to front, and tear on spine head. Spine label to DJ. In an archival mylar sleeve. Hardcover.

In an archival mylar jacket. Contents: Introduction -- The basis of thermodynamics -- Fundamentals of classical mechanics -- Principles of quantum mechanics -- Essentials of statistical mechanics -- Calculation of absolute rates; four-atom reactions -- Luminescence -- Temperature -- Hydrostatic pressure and molecular volume changes -- Action of inhibitors in relation to concentration, temperature, and hydrostatic pressure -- Diffusion through membranes and transmembrane potentials -- Physical chemistry of cell irritability and of the nerve impulse -- Physical chemistry of the contractile process in muscle -- Potential barriers in diffusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography and author index -- Subject index.; Biochemistry. Chemical kinetics. Though unmarked as such, this book is from the library of Dr. Donald A. Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1961; Search keyword DGLSR to see dozens of volumes from The Glaser Collection.