The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNASince its publication in 1968, The Double Helix has given countless readers a rare and exciting look at one highly significant piece of scientific research-Watson and Crick's race to discover the molecular structure of DNA. |
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... Linus Pauling was not sub- ject to the confines of British fair play . Sooner or later Linus , who had just turned fifty , was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes . There was no doubt that he was interested ...
... Linus Pauling was not sub- ject to the confines of British fair play . Sooner or later Linus , who had just turned fifty , was bound to try for the most important of all scientific prizes . There was no doubt that he was interested ...
Page 50
... Linus Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that Pauling's accomplishment was a product of common sense , not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning . Equations occa- sionally crept into his argument , but ...
... Linus Pauling had discovered the a - helix . I soon was taught that Pauling's accomplishment was a product of common sense , not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning . Equations occa- sionally crept into his argument , but ...
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... Linus Pauling himself . Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrange- ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a copy of ...
... Linus Pauling himself . Thus if the crux of the problem was to deduce an unusually clever arrange- ment of inorganic ions and phosphate groups , we were clearly at a disadvantage . By midday it became imper- ative to locate a copy of ...
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