The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNAThe classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind. By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science’s greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick’s desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work. |
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... Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University at the time of the discovery of the Double Helix. He and his father, William Henry, the originators of X-ray crystallography, received the Nobel Prize in 1915. Preface HERE I relate my ...
... Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University at the time of the discovery of the Double Helix. He and his father, William Henry, the originators of X-ray crystallography, received the Nobel Prize in 1915. Preface HERE I relate my ...
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... Cavendish Laboratory , he instantly bonded with Francis Crick , a loquacious British ex - physicist who was a dozen years older but was still working on his doctoral thesis in biology . Brash , ambitious , a trifle loud , the two ...
... Cavendish Laboratory , he instantly bonded with Francis Crick , a loquacious British ex - physicist who was a dozen years older but was still working on his doctoral thesis in biology . Brash , ambitious , a trifle loud , the two ...
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... Cavendish Maurice Wilkins World Wide Photos The microbial genetics meeting, Copenhagen, March Linus Pauling Information Office, California Institute of Technology Sir Lawrence Bragg Rosalind Franklin X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA ...
... Cavendish Maurice Wilkins World Wide Photos The microbial genetics meeting, Copenhagen, March Linus Pauling Information Office, California Institute of Technology Sir Lawrence Bragg Rosalind Franklin X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA ...
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... Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University to join a small group of physicists and chemists working on the three-dimensional structures of proteins. At that time he was thirty-five, yet almost totally unknown. Although some of his ...
... Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University to join a small group of physicists and chemists working on the three-dimensional structures of proteins. At that time he was thirty-five, yet almost totally unknown. Although some of his ...
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... Cavendish was obvious. Almost everyone enjoyed these manic moments, especially when we had the time to listen attentively and to tell him bluntly when we lost the train of his argument. But there was one notable exception. Conversations ...
... Cavendish was obvious. Almost everyone enjoyed these manic moments, especially when we had the time to listen attentively and to tell him bluntly when we lost the train of his argument. But there was one notable exception. Conversations ...
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