The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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Page vii
... interest . The discovery of the structure by Crick and Watson , with all its biological implications , has been one of the major scientific events of this century . The number of researches which it has inspired is amazing ; it has ...
... interest . The discovery of the structure by Crick and Watson , with all its biological implications , has been one of the major scientific events of this century . The number of researches which it has inspired is amazing ; it has ...
Page ix
... interest story - the impression made by Europe and England in particular upon a young man from the States . He writes with a Pepys - like frankness . Those who figure in the book must read it in a very forgiving spirit . One must re ...
... interest story - the impression made by Europe and England in particular upon a young man from the States . He writes with a Pepys - like frankness . Those who figure in the book must read it in a very forgiving spirit . One must re ...
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... interest in genetics . Kalckar was a bright exception . In the summer of 1945 he had come to the lab at Cold Spring Harbor , New York , to take Delbrück's course on bacterial viruses . Thus both Luria and Delbrück hoped the Copenhagen ...
... interest in genetics . Kalckar was a bright exception . In the summer of 1945 he had come to the lab at Cold Spring Harbor , New York , to take Delbrück's course on bacterial viruses . Thus both Luria and Delbrück hoped the Copenhagen ...
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