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As an example , Max told me about his simple idea for testing Pauling's a - helix . Only a day had been required to get the crucial photograph con- firming Pauling's prediction . I did not follow Max at all .
As an example , Max told me about his simple idea for testing Pauling's a - helix . Only a day had been required to get the crucial photograph con- firming Pauling's prediction . I did not follow Max at all .
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Unfortunately , I went on to liken Francis ' way of thinking to Pauling's . But in Delbrück's world no chemical thought matched the power of a genetic cross . Later that evening , when the geneticist Boris Ephrussi brought up my love ...
Unfortunately , I went on to liken Francis ' way of thinking to Pauling's . But in Delbrück's world no chemical thought matched the power of a genetic cross . Later that evening , when the geneticist Boris Ephrussi brought up my love ...
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out the superficial resemblance between Pauling's three - chain helix and the model that Francis and I had shown her fifteen months earlier . The fact that Paul- ing's deductions about symmetry were no more in- spired than our awkward ...
out the superficial resemblance between Pauling's three - chain helix and the model that Francis and I had shown her fifteen months earlier . The fact that Paul- ing's deductions about symmetry were no more in- spired than our awkward ...
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| Title | The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Scientific American modern classics |
| Author | James D. Watson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Scientific American Modern Classics, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1582881170, 9781582881171 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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