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Particularly important were the exact arguments needed to understand how Linus
Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that Pauling ' s
accomplishment was a product of common sense , not the result of complicated ...
Particularly important were the exact arguments needed to understand how Linus
Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that Pauling ' s
accomplishment was a product of common sense , not the result of complicated ...
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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 affair
with ...
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 affair
with ...
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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
Pauling ' s deductions about symmetry were no more inspired than our awkward
efforts ...
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
Pauling ' s deductions about symmetry were no more inspired than our awkward
efforts ...
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User Review - pramodghuge - LibraryThingA very personal account by the author James Watson on how he and his colleague Francis Crick with the help of others beat Linus Pauling to win the coveted Nobel prize for identifying the structure of ... Read full review
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User Review - ajlewis2 - LibraryThingI read about a third of it. I found the story wandered and wasn't clear. His treatment of Rosalind Franklin sounded like something written in the 1950s. It was at that point that I decided the book ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| 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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