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Learning that I would be in Cambridge next year , she talked about her son Peter . Already I knew that Peter was accepted by Bragg to work toward a Ph.D. with John Kendrew . This was despite the fact that his Cal Tech grades left much ...
Learning that I would be in Cambridge next year , she talked about her son Peter . Already I knew that Peter was accepted by Bragg to work toward a Ph.D. with John Kendrew . This was despite the fact that his Cal Tech grades left much ...
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After I was given a glass of warm milk we began discussing Peter Pauling's discovery of Nina , Max's young Danish au pair girl . Then the problem was taken up of how I might establish a connection with the high - class boarding house ...
After I was given a glass of warm milk we began discussing Peter Pauling's discovery of Nina , Max's young Danish au pair girl . Then the problem was taken up of how I might establish a connection with the high - class boarding house ...
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no chance to ask for the manuscript , I pulled it out of Peter's outside coat pocket and began reading . By spending less than a minute with the summary and the introduction , I was soon at the figures showing the locations of the ...
no chance to ask for the manuscript , I pulled it out of Peter's outside coat pocket and began reading . By spending less than a minute with the summary and the introduction , I was soon at the figures showing the locations of the ...
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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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