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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... nature of the answer , and the fact that the X - ray method he had developed forty years before was at the heart of a pro- found insight into the nature of life itself . The final version was ready to be typed on the last weekend of ...
... nature of the answer , and the fact that the X - ray method he had developed forty years before was at the heart of a pro- found insight into the nature of life itself . The final version was ready to be typed on the last weekend of ...
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... Cambridge to work on the nature and operation of the genetic code , a field of which he has been the acknowledged world leader for the past decade . Maurice Wilkins ' work remained centered on DNA for some years until he and his 224 XXXIII.
... Cambridge to work on the nature and operation of the genetic code , a field of which he has been the acknowledged world leader for the past decade . Maurice Wilkins ' work remained centered on DNA for some years until he and his 224 XXXIII.
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