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| Title | : | The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix |
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198704593 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'. Astbury who, working at Leeds in the 1930s on the structure of wool for the local textile industry, pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography to study biological fibres. Of these, the crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose famous X-ray diffraction photograph known as 'Photo 51' provided Watson and Crick with a vital clue, is now well recognised. In so doing, he not only made the very first studies of the structure of DNA culminating in a photo almost identical to Franklin's 'Photo 51', but also founded the new science of 'molecular biology'. Yet whilst Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize, Astbury has largely been forgotten. Their discovery of the structure of DNA was, without doubt, one of the biggest scientific landmarks in history and, thanks largely to the success of Watson's best-selling memoir 'The Double Helix', there might seem to be little new to say about this story. Far less well known is the physicist William T. But much remains to be said about the particular 'giants' on whose shoulders Watson and Crick stood. The Man in the Monkeynut Coat tells the story of this neglected pioneer, showing not only how it was thanks to him that Watson and Crick were not left empty-handed, but also
"Five Stars" according to David J. Triggle. On time and as promised
Richmond (Wayne State University), ISIS, a journal of the History of Science Society, vol. In Hall's marvellously readable and deeply researched pages, the development of that science emerges as inseparable from the fortunes of the textiles industry - and from the misfortunes of a man who, like the monkeynut coat he helped to invent, disappeared into obscurity despite huge initial promise. Iain Campbell, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford This fascinating biography of the founder of molecular biology, the biocrystallographer William Astbury, reads like detective story. With this superb book, Kersten Hall has written Astbury back in. The Briti
He then worked as a research fellow in molecular biology in the School of Medicine, University of Leeds. Kersten T. He lives in Leeds with his wife and two sons.. Anne's College, Oxford, with BA Honours in Biochemistry before completing a PhD at the University of Leeds on the regulation of human genes by viruses
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