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Herman had completely misled me . For the first six weeks in Naples I was
constantly cold . The official temperature is often much less relevant than the
absence of central heating . Neither the Zoological Station nor my decaying room
atop a ...
Herman had completely misled me . For the first six weeks in Naples I was
constantly cold . The official temperature is often much less relevant than the
absence of central heating . Neither the Zoological Station nor my decaying room
atop a ...
Page 64
Here I first sensed the vitality of English intellectual life , so completely absent
during my initial days in my Victorian room several hundred yards away on Jesus
Green . They had then been married for three years . Francis ' first marriage did
not ...
Here I first sensed the vitality of English intellectual life , so completely absent
during my initial days in my Victorian room several hundred yards away on Jesus
Green . They had then been married for three years . Francis ' first marriage did
not ...
Page 108
The second paragraph gave the news that I had been awarded a completely new
fellowship . I was not , however , to be let off merely with the long period of
uncertainty . The second fellowship was not for the customary twelve - month
period ...
The second paragraph gave the news that I had been awarded a completely new
fellowship . I was not , however , to be let off merely with the long period of
uncertainty . The second fellowship was not for the customary twelve - month
period ...
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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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