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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... chemists encouraged me to learn organic chemistry , but after I used a bunsen burner to warm up some ben- zene , I was relieved from further true chemistry . It was safer to turn out an uneducated Ph.D. than to risk another explosion ...
... chemists encouraged me to learn organic chemistry , but after I used a bunsen burner to warm up some ben- zene , I was relieved from further true chemistry . It was safer to turn out an uneducated Ph.D. than to risk another explosion ...
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... chemist . He had no difficulty deciding between a protein chemist and a nucleic - acid chemist . Though only about ... chemists worked with it and , except for the fact that nucleic acids were very large molecules built up from smaller ...
... chemist . He had no difficulty deciding between a protein chemist and a nucleic - acid chemist . Though only about ... chemists worked with it and , except for the fact that nucleic acids were very large molecules built up from smaller ...
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... chemists who did work on DNA were almost always organic chemists with no interest in genetics . Kalckar was a bright exception . In the summer of 1945 he had come to the lab at Cold Spring Harbor , New York , to take Delbrück's course ...
... chemists who did work on DNA were almost always organic chemists with no interest in genetics . Kalckar was a bright exception . In the summer of 1945 he had come to the lab at Cold Spring Harbor , New York , to take Delbrück's course ...
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