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Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-

Bound by muscle : biological science, humanism, and the lives of A.V. Hill and Otto Meyerhof / Andrew Brown. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Andrew Brown details the lives and achievements of two physiologists, Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977) and Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884-1951). They shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries related to metabolic changes underlying muscle activity. 'Bound by Muscle' describes how Hill and Meyerhof's lives and careers intersected and diverged and how their work changed the course of biological science.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9780197582664 No price

Subjects--Personal Names:
Hill, A. V. 1886-1977.
Meyerhof, Otto, 1884-1951.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physiologists--Great Britain--Biography.
Physiologists--Germany--Biography.
Muscles--Physiology--Research--History.
Biography.
Biography & non-fiction prose.

LC Class. No.: QP25

Dewey Class. No.: 571.0922