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Previous Volume 332:1243 May 4, 1995 Number 18

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By Konrad Bloch. 261 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1994. $30. ISBN 0-300-05881-0.

This book presents 13 diverse essays held together by Konrad Bloch's encyclopedic knowledge of biochemistry and by his ability to arouse interest in anything he chooses to discuss. A recipient of the Nobel prize in 1964 for his elegant research on the biosynthesis of cholesterol, Bloch has wide-ranging interests.

The coiffures of blondes in Venetian paintings, according to one of the title essays, almost certainly owed their color to the potion aqua bionda, which predated the discovery of hydrogen peroxide by more than 300 years. Bloch discusses the probable preparation and chemistry of this potion. Its application must have been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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