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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... X - ray photo- graphs . No obstacle thus prevented me from talking at least several hours each day to Francis ... pictures ; the essential trick , instead , was to ask which atoms like to sit next to each other . In place of pencil and ...
... X - ray photo- graphs . No obstacle thus prevented me from talking at least several hours each day to Francis ... pictures ; the essential trick , instead , was to ask which atoms like to sit next to each other . In place of pencil and ...
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... X - ray evidence , he knew of its existence and to a certain extent had ... picture should prevent a number of false starts . Fortunately , there already ... pictures be- longed to Maurice could not be avoided . There was nothing else ...
... X - ray evidence , he knew of its existence and to a certain extent had ... picture should prevent a number of false starts . Fortunately , there already ... pictures be- longed to Maurice could not be avoided . There was nothing else ...
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... X - ray work with viruses . Virtually no words went to DNA . When I brought up the X - ray pictures at King's , Linus gave the opinion that very accurate X - ray work of the type done by his associates on amino acids was vital to our ...
... X - ray work with viruses . Virtually no words went to DNA . When I brought up the X - ray pictures at King's , Linus gave the opinion that very accurate X - ray work of the type done by his associates on amino acids was vital to our ...
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