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The secret of life Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA's double helix

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"A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of gene...

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Main Author: Markel, Howard (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Franklin, Rosalind, > 1920-1958.
Watson, James D., > 1928-
Crick, Francis, > 1916-2004.
Wilkins, Maurice, > 1916-2004.
Pauling, Linus, > 1901-1994.
DNA > Structure > Research > History > 20th century.
Genetic code > Research > History > 20th century.
Scientists > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Opening credits
  • The monk and the biochemist
  • Before the double helix
  • Take me to the Cavendish Laboratory
  • The third man
  • Like touching the fronds of a sea anemone
  • There was no one like Linus in all the world
  • The quiz kid
  • Vide Napule e po' muore
  • From Ann Arbor to Cambridge
  • An American in Cambridge
  • The king's war
  • The lecture
  • The dreaming spires of Oxford
  • Mr. Crick and Dr. Watson build their dream model
  • Dr. Pauling's predicament
  • Chargaff's rules
  • Paris and Royaumont
  • A haphazard summer
  • Linus sings
  • A stomach ache in Clare College
  • Peter and the wolf
  • Photograph no. 51
  • The mornings after
  • The MRC report
  • Base pairs
  • It's so beautiful
  • Defeat
  • It has not escaped our notice
  • Stockholm
  • Closing credits.

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