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Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by WATSON,JAMES D.Edition:
00
ISBN13:
9780393950755
ISBN10:
0393950751
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Pub. Date:
10/17/1980
Publisher(s):
W W NORTON
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Summary
Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In Criticism, which begins with "A Review of the Reviews" by Gunther Stent, other scientists and scholars reveal their own experiences and views of Watson's story. There are reviews by Philip Morrison, F. X. S., Richard C. Lewontin, Mary Ellmann, Robert L. Sinsheimer, John Lear, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, Conrad H. Waddington, Robert K. Merton, Peter M. Medawar, and André Lwoff; as well as three letters to the editor of Science by Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D. Watson.
Table of Contents
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| The DNA Double Helix and the Rise of Molecular Biology | xi | (11) | |||
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| The Author and Publication of The Double Helix | xxii | (2) | |||
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| A Book That Couldn't Go to Harvard (1968) | xxiv | ||||
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| Index of Names | 295 |
