The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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Page 65
Francis was always eager to continue our conversations , while I joyously seized
every opportunity to escape from the miserable ... Instead , dinner was often gay ,
especially after the wine turned the conversation to the currently talked - about ...
Francis was always eager to continue our conversations , while I joyously seized
every opportunity to escape from the miserable ... Instead , dinner was often gay ,
especially after the wine turned the conversation to the currently talked - about ...
Page 81
Most of the conversation centered instead on Dorothy ' s recent work with insulin .
Since darkness was coming on , there seemed no point in wasting more of her
time . We then moved on to Magdalen , where we were to have tea with Avrion ...
Most of the conversation centered instead on Dorothy ' s recent work with insulin .
Since darkness was coming on , there seemed no point in wasting more of her
time . We then moved on to Magdalen , where we were to have tea with Avrion ...
Page 141
The mating habits of bacteria were admittedly a unique conversation piece -
absolutely no one in his and Odile ' s social circle would guess bacteria had sex
lives . On the other hand , working out how they did it was best left to minor minds
.
The mating habits of bacteria were admittedly a unique conversation piece -
absolutely no one in his and Odile ' s social circle would guess bacteria had sex
lives . On the other hand , working out how they did it was best left to minor minds
.
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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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