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By Joseph S. Fruton. 783 pp. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1999. $45. ISBN 0-300-07608-8.

Research in biochemistry and molecular biology is proceeding at a furious pace. Thousands of scientists, in both academia and industry, are working in this area. The literature has become unmanageable; the Journal of Biological Chemistry, once a modest-sized monthly, is now a weekly the size of a small telephone book. How did all this frenetic activity begin? The tale is told by Joseph Fruton, historian of science and former head of the department of biochemistry at Yale University, in Proteins, Enzymes, Genes.

The book begins with three background chapters, the first dealing with approaches to the history of science, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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