Warburg: father of the metabolic approach to cancer

The striking typography on the jacket of Sam Apple's biography over a black and white image of the subject evokes the German propaganda films of the Second World War. Indeed, the iconography alludes to a significant period in the life of Otto Warburg, who is regarded by contemporaries as one of the most important biochemists of the 20th century. This is a multistranded depiction of a notorious aristocratic German-Jewish pioneer in the war against cancer who somehow triumphed in his own war against the Nazi leadership.