| Preface to Volume 40 | |
| Contributors to this Volume | |
| Wandering in the Fields of Science | |
| Keilin and the Molteno | |
| Introduction | |
| Keilin's favourite | |
| Warburton and the Siberian tick | |
| Frail health | |
| Lack of tenure | |
| An Australian Biochemist in Four Countries | |
| Introduction | |
| Early life in Australia 1917-1939 | |
| Family background | |
| Schooling | |
| University education | |
| First research | |
| Australian Institute of Anatomy 1939-1946 | |
| World War II work interlude (1942-1943) | |
| Return to Canberra | |
| Cambridge 1946-1949 | |
| Molteno Institute | |
| Australian National University | |
| USA 1949-1950 | |
| Return to Cambridge 1950-1955 | |
| Enzyme kinetics | |
| Stability of isolated mitochondria | |
| Oxidative phosphorylation | |
| Offer of Amsterdam Chair | |
| Amsterdam 1955-1985 | |
| Starting in Amsterdam | |
| First five years in Amsterdam 1955-1960 | |
| Second five years 1961-1965 | |
| The second decade (1965-1975) | |
| Reorganization of Netherlands universities as a result of student pressure | |
| The last decade in Amsterdam 1975-1985 | |
| Extra-university activities | |
| Biochimica et Biophysica Acta | |
| Nomenclature | |
| EMBO and EMBL | |
| The Royal Netherlands Academy of Science | |
| The Netherlands Organization of Pure Scientific Research (ZWO) | |
| International Union of Biochemistry (IUB) | |
| China | |
| Retirement | |
| Concluding remarks | |
| References | |
| A Lifetime Journey with Photosynthesis | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Childhood and primary education | |
| Professional education in chemistry | |
| War and the beginning of the biochemical career | |
| Photochemistry of chlorophyll | |
| Reversible chlorophyll photoreduction | |
| Reversible chlorophyll photooxidation | |
| Chase for free radicals | |
| Chlorophyll-photosensitized electron transfer | |
| The state of the photosynthetic pigments in living cells | |
| Reaction centers | |
| Inorganic models of reaction centers | |
| Involvement in problems of the origin of life | |
| Teaching at the Moscow University | |
| Epilogue | |
| References | |
| Efraim Racker: 28 June 1913 to 9 September 1991 | |
| A Life with the Metals of Life | |
| Introduction: the shaping of a bioinorganic chemist | |
| Early influences on my intellectual development | |
| A gymnasium with a university curriculum | |
| A book with a mission | |
| From gymnasium to college studies in the United States | |
| The graduate school years | |
| The beginnings of research | |
| Intellectual influences on a graduate student | |
| Enzyme research in Uppsala | |
| Metal-ion activation of enolase | |
| Uppsala friends | |
| Instructor in Minnesota | |
| Teaching and research | |
| A short army career | |
| 'Docent' in Uppsala | |
| The embryo of an enzyme group | |
| An expanding research program | |
| An interlude in Utah | |
| The beginnings of oxidase research | |
| The end of the Uppsala period | |
| Visiting professor in California | |
| A bioinorganic course | |
| The transition from Uppsala to G oteborg | |
| Professor at Goteborg University | |
| A glimpse of the Swedish academic system of the 1960s | |
| The building of a new department | |
| A number of visitors | |
| My research 1964-93 | |
| Laccase and other blue copper proteins | |
| Three sabbaticals | |
| Early cytochrome oxidase investigations | |
| My collaboration with Harry Gray | |
| Electron transfer and proton pumping | |
| The Cu A site | |
| The Nobel Committee for Chemistry 1972-1988 | |
| The composition of the committee | |
| Some small reforms | |
| The happy life of a professor emeritus | |
| Retirement | |
| Mutants of bacterial cytochrome oxydases | |
| Cu A and PNA | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| References | |
| Harland Goff Wood: An American Biochemist | |
| Introduction | |
| Early years and education | |
| Affiliation with C. H. Werkman at Iowa State | |
| Graduate research | |
| Postdoctoral work | |
| The propionic acid cycle | |
| Early studies on propionic acid metabolism | |
| Expansion of the research project | |
| Discovery of the transcarboxylation reaction | |
| Isolation of the transcarboxylase enzyme | |
| Completion of the propionic acid cycle | |
| Conclusions | |
| Coda | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Fermentation balances | |
| Fate has Smiled Kindly | |
| Early | |
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