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The industry of life

01 Nov 2007

A century after his death, Kelvin's pioneering work in thermodynamics – which underpinned the Industrial Revolution – is being mirrored by researchers exploring the biological engines that power life itself, as Mark Haw describes

The industry of life
To most physicists, the phrase “theory of everything” refers to a unified theory of nat

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Mark Haw is in the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is author of Middle World: The Restless Heart of Matter and Life (2007, Macmillan).
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