The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
[1st ed.]
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Publication
1968 - Atheneum, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
56,500 words, Guess
Page Count
226 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5608734M
- OCLC Control Number439345
- OCLC Control Number7669077
- OCLC Control Numberdoublehelixpers00wats
- Library of Congress Control Number68016217
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- LibraryThing11624
Classifications
- DDC547/.596
- LCCQD341.A2 W315
Description
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.
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