Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life

1. A Synthesis of Thermodynamics and Bioenergetics in Plant Physiology: The Investigation of a Moody Apprentice
Lloyd Ackert

2. The Exchange of Matter and the Transformation of Energy
Lloyd Ackert

3. The Laboratory is Nature: Investigating the Cycle of Life Under the Microscope
Lloyd Ackert

4. Free Nature in the Laboratory
Lloyd Ackert

5. Vinogradskii’s Transformation from Plant Physiologist to Ecologist, 1890–1920
Lloyd Ackert

6. Soil Science and Russian Ecology
Lloyd Ackert

7. The Master of Brie-Compte-Robert and His “Direct Method:” Translating the Cycle of Life into Ecology
Lloyd Ackert

8. Ecological Microbiology
Lloyd Ackert

9. Science is Ecological and Ecology is Scientific: The Uptake of Vinogradskii’s Direct Methods
Lloyd Ackert

10. Vinogradskii’s Reception in Russian and Soviet Microbiology
Lloyd Ackert

11. Conclusions
Lloyd Ackert

Keywords: Science, general, Science, general, Ecology, History of Science