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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... sure , there are cases where my recollections differ from theirs , and so this book must be regarded as my view of the matter . Some of the earlier chapters were written in the homes of Albert Szent - Györgyi , John A. Wheeler , and ...
... sure , there are cases where my recollections differ from theirs , and so this book must be regarded as my view of the matter . Some of the earlier chapters were written in the homes of Albert Szent - Györgyi , John A. Wheeler , and ...
Page 170
... sure I understood that if we could all agree where science was going , everything would be solved and we would have no recourse but to be engi- neers or doctors . With the food on the table I tried to fix our thoughts on the chain ...
... sure I understood that if we could all agree where science was going , everything would be solved and we would have no recourse but to be engi- neers or doctors . With the food on the table I tried to fix our thoughts on the chain ...
Page 175
... sure from both electron - microscope and X - ray evi- dence that the helix diameter was about 20 Å . Francis , however , drew the line against accepting my assertion that the repeated finding of twoness in biological systems told us to ...
... sure from both electron - microscope and X - ray evi- dence that the helix diameter was about 20 Å . Francis , however , drew the line against accepting my assertion that the repeated finding of twoness in biological systems told us to ...
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