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Moreover , it was increasingly difficult to take Maurice ' s mind off his assistant ,
Rosalind Franklin . Not that he was at all in love with Rosy , as we called her from
a distance . Just the opposite — almost from the moment she arrived in Maurice ...
Moreover , it was increasingly difficult to take Maurice ' s mind off his assistant ,
Rosalind Franklin . Not that he was at all in love with Rosy , as we called her from
a distance . Just the opposite — almost from the moment she arrived in Maurice ...
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A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA James D. Watson.
An X - ray photograph of DNA in the B form , taken by Rosalind Franklin late in
1952 .
A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA James D. Watson.
An X - ray photograph of DNA in the B form , taken by Rosalind Franklin late in
1952 .
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All of these people , should they desire , can indicate events and details they
remember differently . But there is one unfortunate exception . In 1958 , Rosalind
Franklin died at the early age of thirty - seven . Since my initial impressions of her
...
All of these people , should they desire , can indicate events and details they
remember differently . But there is one unfortunate exception . In 1958 , Rosalind
Franklin died at the early age of thirty - seven . Since my initial impressions of her
...
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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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| 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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