Description:
Muscles and Molecules, by Gerald Pollack topples the widely accepted understanding on how muscles contract, replacing it with a simpler construct that better fits the evidence.
Brief description: Scientist, speaker, and author, Gerald H. Pollack (Jerry) is recognized worldwide for identifying water's fourth phase -- H3O2. He is known for his open-minded approach -- with ideas and with people.
His work with water earned him the inaugural Emoto Peace Prize, as well as the Prigogine Medal for Thermodynamics, and the NIH Director's Transformative R01 Award.Pollack is the founding Editor-in-chief of the research journal WATER, founding Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, and organizer of the annual International Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. Further, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Srpska Academy. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. The University of Washington has bestowed on him their highest faculty distinction, the Faculty Lecturer Award.
Review Quotes:
"Muscles and Molecules, written by Jerry Pollack, is a beautifully produced, single-authored text by one of our more thoughtful, if unconventional, authorities on the mechanism of muscular contraction... Clearly and elegantly written, and with a charm and grace not often seen in modern scientific writing, the book is beautifully produced, well-indexed and exquisitely illustrated. Both the author and publishers are to be congratulated on publishing a book of this quality for such a reasonable price."
-Arnold M. Katz, M. D., Journal of Cellular and Molecular Cardiology