An edition of The double helix (1968)

The double helix

a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA

1st Scribner ed.
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An edition of The double helix (1968)

The double helix

a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA

1st Scribner ed.
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By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist 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 science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant 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 Holy Grail of life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work. - Back cover.

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Scribner
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English
Pages
226

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The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
1998, Scribner
in English - 1st Scribner ed.
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The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
1980, Norton
in English - 1st ed.
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Edition Notes

Portions of this book were first published in The Atlantic Monthly.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
572.8/6
Library of Congress
QH450.2 .W37 1998

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Pagination
xvi, 226 p. :
Number of pages
226

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL429697M
ISBN 10
0684852799
LCCN
98136787
LibraryThing
11624
Goodreads
126058

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OL2125469W

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