Career Paths and Biochemistry Books

Previously, I have written articles about books to read, mostly fiction, to learn about careers in biology/environmental science, the law, political science, art & archeology, engineering, and writing. This time I want to speak about chemistry, which in the modern world has come to look less and less like classical chemistry and increasingly more like biochemistry, a word and career that took on greater meaning for the public when James Watson and Francis Crick worked out the molecular structure of DNA in the early fifties. For that, they received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with Maurice Wilkins. That grand story and more is written in non-fiction, so let me tell you about those wonderful reads. First and foremost definitely is “The Eighth Day of Creation: The Make…