Lucky Choices
The Story of my Life in Science
by Jens Chr. Skou
It has been said that ‘the discovery of the Na, K-ATPase by J. C. Skou in 1957 must rank as one of the most influential contributions to Bioenergetics and Cell Physiology.’ The ion-transporting enzyme has since been acknowledged as a vital ‘pump’ in all cells. Skou’s memoirs tell the story of a Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough in biochemistry. But during his voyage of discovery he also repeatedly finds occasion to speak out in defence of the basic principles of scientific research. ‘We would,’ as Skou says in one of his speeches, ‘do well to promote science by encouraging young people to engage with their profoundly human capacity for astonishment, and wonder.’ The ion-transporting pump continues to surprise. Its involvement in genetic disease is the latest addition to our understanding of this fascinating mechanism, and there will likely be much more to learn in the future.
- By (author) Jens Chr. Skou
Similar Books
Beyond Sovereign Courts
Agents and Practices in Early Modern Spanish and Habsburg Diplomacy
Volume 3
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Unsilencing the Archives
New Approaches to the History of Archaeological Labor in the Mandate Period Middle East
Volume 80
Credit Default Swap-Aktivismus
Eine ökonomische Analyse und rechtliche Bewertung der Einflussnahme von Credit Default Swap-Investoren auf Unternehmen
Indirekte Enteignung
Verfassungsunmittelbar gebotene Entschädigungspflicht im Spiegel des Mehrebenensystems
La Suisse, espace privilegie du neoliberalisme / Die Schweiz, ein idealer Nahrboden fur den Neoliberalismus
Sitten zwischen Moralphilosophie und Politischer Okonomie am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
Mit einer zweisprachigen Edition von Ludwig Heinrich Jakobs Preisschrift Quelles sont les institutions les plus propres a fonder la morale d'un peuple
Wertebildung in der Schule
Struktur, Vermittlung, Entwicklungsdynamik - Herausforderungen und Ambivalenzen
A Companion to Political Leadership in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990
Democratization – Political Parties – Elections
Volume 3
Autocratic Rule in Antiquity
Proceedings of the 14th Melammu Workshop, Krakow, 46 October 2021
Volume 12
