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Page vii
I was much pleased when Watson asked me to write the foreword . There is in the
first place its scientific interest . The discovery of the structure by Crick and
Watson , with all its biological implications , has been one of the major scientific ...
I was much pleased when Watson asked me to write the foreword . There is in the
first place its scientific interest . The discovery of the structure by Crick and
Watson , with all its biological implications , has been one of the major scientific ...
Page xii
In this sense , no one will ever be able to write a definitive history of how the
structure was established . Nonetheless , I feel the story should be told , partly
because many of my scientific friends have expressed curiosity about how the
double ...
In this sense , no one will ever be able to write a definitive history of how the
structure was established . Nonetheless , I feel the story should be told , partly
because many of my scientific friends have expressed curiosity about how the
double ...
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The day for towing the annual of your letter received a nota from Pauling ,
mentioning tiat their model had been reviand , and indicating interest in on model
wie eithers have to write wins the neem future a s what we are doing watt nen we
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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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User Review - ajlewis2 - LibraryThingI read about a third of it. I found the story wandered and wasn't clear. His treatment of Rosalind Franklin sounded like something written in the 1950s. It was at that point that I decided the book ... Read full review
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| 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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