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Nick Lane new book launch. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

20 May 2022, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm

Lane book cover Transformer 2022

Nick Lane's new book will be published on May the 19th: Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (Profile Books & WW Norton). The book launch will be at the Royal Institution on May the 20th. 

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

The Royal Institution Events Team

Location

The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4BS

Nick Lane takes us on a journey which turns the standard view upside down, capturing an extraordinary scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight.

At its core is an amazing cycle of reactions that uses energy to transform inorganic molecules into the building blocks of life – and the reverse.

To understand this cycle is to fathom the deep coherence of the living world. It connects the origin of life with the devastation of cancer, the first photosynthetic bacteria with our own mitochondria, sulfurous sludges with the emergence of consciousness, and the trivial differences between ourselves with the large-scale history of our planet.

 

https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/transformer-chemistry-life-and-death?utm_source=ScienceLive&utm_medium=referral

 

About the Speaker

Nick Lane

Professor Nick Lane | UCL Division of Biosciences - UCL – University College London