The double helix : a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
By identifying the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won a Nobel Prize. All the time Watson was only twenty-four, a young zoologist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of sciences' greatest unsolved mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the identification of the basic building block of life
Biographies
1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages : illustrations)
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Crick and Watson, along the backs
Francis in the Cavendish
Maurice Wilkins world wide photos
Microbial genetics meeting, Copenhagen, March 1951
Linus Pauling; Information Office, California Institute of Technology
Sir Lawrence Bragg
Rosalind Franklin
X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA, a form
Elizabeth Watson
In Paris, spring 1952
Meeting at Royaumont, July 1952
In the Italian Alps, August 1952
Early ideas on the DNA-RNA-protein relation
X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA, B form
Original model of the double helix
Watson and Crick in front of the model
Morning coffee in the Cavendish
Letter to Max Delbruck
In Stockholm, December 1962
Portions of this book were originally published in The Atlantic monthly
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