The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... manuscript to some of us who were involved in the story , and we have suggested corrections of historical fact here and there , but per- sonally I have felt reluctant to alter too much because the freshness and directness with which ...
... manuscript to some of us who were involved in the story , and we have suggested corrections of historical fact here and there , but per- sonally I have felt reluctant to alter too much because the freshness and directness with which ...
Page 160
... manuscript , I pulled it out of Peter's outside coat pocket and began reading . By spending less than a minute with the summary and the introduction , I was soon at the figures showing the locations of the essential atoms . At once I ...
... manuscript , I pulled it out of Peter's outside coat pocket and began reading . By spending less than a minute with the summary and the introduction , I was soon at the figures showing the locations of the essential atoms . At once I ...
Page 175
... Since our machinist needed at least three days merely to turn out the more simple phosphorus atoms , I went back to Clare after lunch to hammer out the final draft of my genetics manuscript . Later , when I cycled over to Pop's 175.
... Since our machinist needed at least three days merely to turn out the more simple phosphorus atoms , I went back to Clare after lunch to hammer out the final draft of my genetics manuscript . Later , when I cycled over to Pop's 175.
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