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From Bio-organic Chemistry to Molecular and Synthetic Biology: Fulfilling Emil Fischer’s Dream (2016)

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The following paper is intended to provide a broad context for many of the subsequent papers of the workshop. I will do this by reflecting on a century of development in one area of the discipline of chemistry, with a particular focus on what I am calling “Emil Fischer’s dream.” In 1915 Fischer envisioned a central aspect of the transformation of chemistry in the twentieth century, the development of an interdisciplinary approach to the chemistry of life that would not only result in greater insight into the nature of life, but ultimately allow human beings to change the nature of life itself.

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Authors & Contributors
Deichmann, Ute
Ackert, Lloyd T., Jr.
Baudet, Jean C.
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
Bueno, Otávio
Cobb, Matthew
Journals
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Biological Theory
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Hyle
Publishers
Columbia University Press
GNT
Harvard University Press
Springer
University of Chicago Press
Vuibert
Concepts
Biochemistry
Molecular biology
Biology
Chemistry
Organic chemistry
Synthetic biology; bioengineering
People
Fischer, Emil Hermann
Ehrlich, Paul
Gobley, Nicolas-Theodoré
Hofmeister, Franz
Kastner, Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb
Leduc, Stéphane
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Germany
Europe
United States
Institutions
Universität Bonn
Deutsches Museum
Heidelberg Universität
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