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I politely thanked Sir Lawrence for accepting me and told Max I would be back in three weeks for the start of the Michaelmas term . I then returned to Copenhagen to collect my few clothes and to tell Herman about my good luck in being ...
I politely thanked Sir Lawrence for accepting me and told Max I would be back in three weeks for the start of the Michaelmas term . I then returned to Copenhagen to collect my few clothes and to tell Herman about my good luck in being ...
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specificity , since our chemist friends repeatedly told us that the hydrogen atoms in the purine and pyrimidine bases did not have fixed locations but randomly moved from one spot to another . Instead , Francis had the feeling that DNA ...
specificity , since our chemist friends repeatedly told us that the hydrogen atoms in the purine and pyrimidine bases did not have fixed locations but randomly moved from one spot to another . Instead , Francis had the feeling that DNA ...
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Rosy by then was hardly able to control her temper , and her voice rose as she told me that the stupidity of my remarks would be obvious if I would stop blubbering and look at her X - ray evidence .
Rosy by then was hardly able to control her temper , and her voice rose as she told me that the stupidity of my remarks would be obvious if I would stop blubbering and look at her X - ray evidence .
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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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