The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Norton Critical Edition by Watson, James D. (9780393950755)

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Norton Critical Edition

by Watson, James D. , Stent, Gunther S.

Paperback - English

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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0393950751

EAN

9780393950755

Publisher

W W NORTON & CO

Publication Date

17 Oct 1980

Pages

336

Weight (kg)

0.33

Dimensions (cm)

20.9 x 13.0 x 1.8

Lexile Level

1210

About Author

James D. Watson was Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968 to 1993 and is now its President. He spent his undergraduate years at the University of Chicago and received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Indiana University. Between 1950 and 1953, he did postdoctoral research in Copenhagen and Cambridge, England. While at Cambridge, he began the collaboration that resulted in the elucidation of the double-helical structure of DNA in 1953. Later in1953, he went to the California Institute of Technology. He moved to Harvard in 1955, where he taught and did research on RNA synthesis and protein sy