Fundamental Changes in Cellular Biology in the 20th Century. Biology of Development, Chemistry and Physics in the Life Sciences: Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997) Vol. III

This volume presents a collection of selected papers worked out for the XXth International Congress of History of Science held in July 1997 in Liege The first part analyzes interrelations between the exact sciences, chemistry and physics on the one hand, and life sciences on the other hand. It is well known that in many fields of biological sciences, mainly in those working with experimental methods, chemical and physical knowledge was integrated but the historic development of that interrelatio…