Sahotra Sarkar is Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Prologue; Preface; 1 Beginnings; 2 The Liverpool Years; 3 Swiss Interlude; 4 Through Cambridge to Vancouver; 5 The Genetic Code; 6 Total Synthesis of a Gene; 7 The Membrane Decades; 8 Later Years and Legacy; Acknowledgments; References; Index

This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.