Extremophiles Where It All Began
Koki Horikoshi — discoverer of the alkaliphiles, microbes that thrive in alkaline environments — describes in his autobiography how the research on extremophiles started and developed. He is a pioneer in the study of these microorganisms that thrive in extreme conditions, and in his book he opens a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tokyo
Springer Japan
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Prologue
- 2 Earlier Microbiology
- 3 The University of Tokyo and Purdue University
- 4 Alkaliphiles
- 5 The Ingham Family and Biosciences
- 6 Superbugs project
- 7 Medal Lecture at the Royal Society
- 8 JAMSTEC Deep Star
- 9 Samples From 10,898 Meters Beneath the Pacific Ocean
- 10 His Majesty the Emperor and the Deep Sea
- 11 New Scientific Journal Extremophiles and the International Society of Extremophiles
- 12 My Lifelong Friend Hubert Gottschling
- 13 Epilogue