The Construction of Analogy-Based Research Programs

The Lock-and-Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry

von Rebecca Mertens

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzymes and substrates quickly gained vast influence and provided future generations of scientists with a tool to investigate the relation between chemical structure and biological specificity.Rebecca Mertens explains the appeal of the lock-and-key analogy by its role in model building and in the construction of long-term, cross-generational research programs. She argues that a crucial feature of these research programs, namely ascertaining the continuity of core ideas and concepts, is provided by a certain way of analogy-based modelling.

• Reihe: Science Studies
• ISBN: 9783837644425
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2019
• Genre: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
• Verlag: transcript