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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... Nonetheless , I feel the story should be told , partly be- cause many of my scientific friends have expressed curiosity about how the double helix was found , and to them an incomplete version is better than none . But even more ...
... Nonetheless , I feel the story should be told , partly be- cause many of my scientific friends have expressed curiosity about how the double helix was found , and to them an incomplete version is better than none . But even more ...
Page 63
... Nonetheless , he stopped his work , for he and his wife , Odile , were invited to a wine tasting at Matthews ' , one of Cambridge's better wine merchants . For several days his morale had been buoyed by the request to sample the wines ...
... Nonetheless , he stopped his work , for he and his wife , Odile , were invited to a wine tasting at Matthews ' , one of Cambridge's better wine merchants . For several days his morale had been buoyed by the request to sample the wines ...
Page 142
... . Conversations with Cavalli , nonetheless , hinted that Joshua was not yet prepared to think simply . He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contrib- ute equal amounts of genetic material , even though the ...
... . Conversations with Cavalli , nonetheless , hinted that Joshua was not yet prepared to think simply . He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contrib- ute equal amounts of genetic material , even though the ...
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