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A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography
by Luria, Salvador Edward
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060152605
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152604
- Seller
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Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Harpercollins, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Foxing to edges. Pages unmarked. x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. <br> In 1969 microbiologist Salvador Luria shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Max Delbrick and Alfred Hershey for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. They were praised for setting the solid foundations on which modern molecular biology rests. Luria was able to carry out his award-winning research only after escaping first Fascism and then Nazism as World War II was engulfing Europe.
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- Bookseller
- SequiturBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2404180006
- Title
- A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography
- Author
- Luria, Salvador Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060152605
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152604
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 19 oz
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