17.285 a history of Michaelis-Menten?

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 02:14:42 EDT

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             Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 07:05:34 +0100
             From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
             Subject: Michaelis-Menten?

    This may seem an odd query, but it's genuine enough: does anyone here know
    of an historical study covering the applications of the Michaelis-Menten
    equation across the many disciplines in which it has been applied? (For the
    curious, an explanation of what this is can be found at
    http://www.le.ac.uk/by/teach/biochemweb/tutorials/michment1.html.)
    Its range of applications is truly impressive, and to the outsider amazing
    -- all the way from enzyme kinetics to demographics. Surely this has caught
    the eye of an historian or two.

    Thanks for any leads.

    Yours,
    WM

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