Quantitative Laws Biological Chemistry

A15. Arrhenius, S., Quantitative Laws in Biological Chemistry. Harcourt, New York, 1915. 

Clausius s couplet summarizes the vast range of experience that is canonized in thermodynamics, a subject that hes at the heart of chemistry, biochemistry, and indeed to all of nature. The power of thermodynamics hes in its abihty to provide a quantitative measure of the energy changes that occur in physical, chemical, and biological processes. Chemical reactions of metabolism, the transport of material across cell membranes, the assembly of membranes, and the assembly of other types of macromolecular complexes all obey these laws. Nothing overrides the laws of thermodynamics they are the decrees of fate. 

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