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It would have looked very bad if Francis had jumped in on a problem that Maurice
had worked over for several years . The matter was even worse because the two ,
almost equal in age , knew each other and , before Francis remarried , had ...
It would have looked very bad if Francis had jumped in on a problem that Maurice
had worked over for several years . The matter was even worse because the two ,
almost equal in age , knew each other and , before Francis remarried , had ...
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fair play obviously did not exist , these problems would not have arisen . The
States also would not ... One would not expect someone at Berkeley to ignore a
first - rate problem merely because someone at Cal Tech had started first . In
England ...
fair play obviously did not exist , these problems would not have arisen . The
States also would not ... One would not expect someone at Berkeley to ignore a
first - rate problem merely because someone at Cal Tech had started first . In
England ...
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More than enough protein problems kept popping up that required someone with
a bent toward theory . ... one should mind if , by spending only a few hours a
week thinking about DNA , he helped me solve a smashingly important problem .
More than enough protein problems kept popping up that required someone with
a bent toward theory . ... one should mind if , by spending only a few hours a
week thinking about DNA , he helped me solve a smashingly important problem .
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User Review - tgraettinger - LibraryThingWonderful account of the discovery of DNA. Had almost the feel of a detective novel. It's a very easy, quick read. If you can find it, there is a video, "The Race for the Double Helix" aka "Life Story ... Read full review
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Scientific American modern classics |
| Author | James D. Watson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Scientific American Modern Classics, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1582881170, 9781582881171 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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