The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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Page xi
... hope this book will show , science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by out- siders . Instead , its steps forward ( and sometimes back- ward ) are often very human events in which personali- ties and ...
... hope this book will show , science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by out- siders . Instead , its steps forward ( and sometimes back- ward ) are often very human events in which personali- ties and ...
Page 23
... hope that they would eventually learn how the genes controlled cellular heredity . Leading this group were Luria and his German - born friend , the theoretical physicist Max Delbrück , then a professor at Cal Tech . While Delbrück kept ...
... hope that they would eventually learn how the genes controlled cellular heredity . Leading this group were Luria and his German - born friend , the theoretical physicist Max Delbrück , then a professor at Cal Tech . While Delbrück kept ...
Page 85
... hope , how- ever , that Francis might already be on to the vital trick and would immediately blurt it out when he got to the lab . Over eighteen hours had passed since our last conversation , and there was little chance that the Sun ...
... hope , how- ever , that Francis might already be on to the vital trick and would immediately blurt it out when he got to the lab . Over eighteen hours had passed since our last conversation , and there was little chance that the Sun ...
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