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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 to ...
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 to ...
Page 152
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 run ...
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 run ...
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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 essential ...
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 essential ...
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User Review - tgraettinger - LibraryThingWonderful account of the discovery of DNA. Had almost the feel of a detective novel. It's a very easy, quick read. If you can find it, there is a video, "The Race for the Double Helix" aka "Life Story ... Read full review
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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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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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