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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Page 16
... Rosalind Franklin . Not that he was at all , in love with Rosy , as we called her from a distance . Just the opposite - almost from the moment she arrived in Maurice's lab , they began to upset each other . Maurice , a beginner in X ...
... Rosalind Franklin . Not that he was at all , in love with Rosy , as we called her from a distance . Just the opposite - almost from the moment she arrived in Maurice's lab , they began to upset each other . Maurice , a beginner in X ...
Page 70
... anything more positive than he had already . True , she had done some more detailed measurements of the water content of her DNA samples , but even here Rosalind Franklin . Maurice had doubts about whether she was 70.
... anything more positive than he had already . True , she had done some more detailed measurements of the water content of her DNA samples , but even here Rosalind Franklin . Maurice had doubts about whether she was 70.
Page 225
... Rosalind Franklin died at the early age of thirty - seven . Since my initial impressions of her , both scientific and per- sonal ( as recorded in the early pages of this book ) , were often wrong , I want to say something here about her ...
... Rosalind Franklin died at the early age of thirty - seven . Since my initial impressions of her , both scientific and per- sonal ( as recorded in the early pages of this book ) , were often wrong , I want to say something here about her ...
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