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Read [James D. Watson Book] # The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA 'The greatest achievement of science in the twentieth century It will be an enormous success, and deserves to be so - a classic in the sense it will go on being read' - Sir Peter Medawar. Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry by elucidating the structure of DNA - and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time Watson was only 24, with more interest in girls than in chemistry. His uncompromisingly honest account of those heady days lifts the lid on the real world of greatscient
| Title | : | The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140268774 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
at Indiana University in 1950. He lives in the USA. His other publications include THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE GENE and THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL. Between 1950 and 1953 he worked at Copenhagen and Cambridge, where together with Francis Crick he solved the structure of DNA, for which they received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1962. He studied zoology at the University of Chicago, and was awarded his Ph.D. James Watson was b
This book is a good read. I was hoping it would be a Amazon Customer This book is a good read. I was hoping it would be a little more challenging than it ended up being (seems to be written on a 4th grade reading level). Overall a good story about the discovery of DNA.. "Fascinating" according to shel99. This firsthand account of the discovery of DNA dispels a lot of the notions that ousiders have about how science really works. Watson's descriptions of the competition, politics, dead ends, personality clashes, mistakes, and eventually inspiration reveal that discovery is not as clear-cut a process as it sometimes might seem.Watson is honest in his introduction that his account is just that, the story told through his own point of view, complete with possible faulty memories and personal prejudices. I was intrigued by the portrayals of the personalities of so many famous figures that I've been learning about for years. "Fascinating" according to shel99. This firsthand account of the discovery of DNA dispels a lot of the notions that ousiders have about how science really works. Watson's descriptions of the competition, politics, dead ends, personality clashes, mistakes, and eventually inspiration reveal that discovery is not as clear-cut a process as it sometimes might seem.Watson is honest in his introduction that his account is just that, the story told through his own point of view, complete with possible faulty memories and personal prejudices. I was intrigued by the portrayals of the personalities of so many famous figures that I've been learning about for years
He lives in the USA. at Indiana University in 1950. Between 1950 and 1953 he worked at Copenhagen and Cambridge, where together with Francis Crick he solved the structure of DNA, for which they received a share of the Nobel Prize in 1962. His other publications include THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE GENE and THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL. About the Author James Watson was born in Chicago in 1928. . He studied zoology at the University of Chicago, and was awarded his Ph.D
'The greatest achievement of science in the twentieth century It will be an enormous success, and deserves to be so - a classic in the sense it will go on being read' - Sir Peter Medawar. Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry by elucidating the structure of DNA - and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time Watson was only 24, with more interest in girls than in chemistry. His uncompromisingly honest account of those heady days lifts the lid on the real world of greatscientists and the extraordinary excitement of their desperate attempts to beat Linus Pauling to the solution to one of the great enigmas of the life sciences.
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