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 88
... evidence in our hands . As to the forces that held the chains together , the best guess seemed to be salt bridges in which diva- lent cations like Mg ++ held together two or more phos- phate groups . Admittedly there was no evidence ...
... evidence in our hands . As to the forces that held the chains together , the best guess seemed to be salt bridges in which diva- lent cations like Mg ++ held together two or more phos- phate groups . Admittedly there was no evidence ...
Page 169
... evidence for a helix was now over- whelming the Stokes - Cochran - Crick theory clearly indicated that a helix must exist - this was not to him of major significance . After all , he had previously thought a helix would emerge . The ...
... evidence for a helix was now over- whelming the Stokes - Cochran - Crick theory clearly indicated that a helix must exist - this was not to him of major significance . After all , he had previously thought a helix would emerge . The ...
Page 218
... evidence from King's before he considered the matter a closed book . This he hoped would be possible three weeks hence , when he would come to Brussels for a Solvay meeting on proteins in the second week of April . That Pauling was in ...
... evidence from King's before he considered the matter a closed book . This he hoped would be possible three weeks hence , when he would come to Brussels for a Solvay meeting on proteins in the second week of April . That Pauling was in ...
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