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...Once I had the sentence 'I never saw Francis Crick in a modest mood,' I knew that I'd be able to stick it through...
...book has been criticized for its candid descriptions of the author's colleagues, particularly of Francis Crick, who shared the Noble Prize for the 1953 discovery along with Watson and Maurice Wilkins...
When he was only 24, Chicago-born Author Watson helped solve the structure of the heredity-determining DNA molecule, a major feat for which he and British Scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins eventually shared a Nobel prize. Now, 15 years later, he has written a highly literate day-by-day account of his experiences (the title is drawn from the spiral-staircase shape of DNA). The book will lead readers to important discoveries of their own: scientific research is not necessarily the calm, orderly process so tritely portrayed in modern legend, and scientists are all too human...
Watson describes his own shortcomings of laziness and lack of direction; his narrow escape from physical attack by a female crystallographer when he challenged her theories; the abrasive personality of talented Co-worker Crick; an incredible high school-level error by brilliant Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow...
...other points: first, the implication that there could be a connection between the Watson incident and my resignation from Harvard is absurd, as I thought I had made clear to Mr. Joel Kramer. In the early fall of 1966, quite a bit before the President had heard from Crick or Wilkins, I told Mr. Pusey that I would have to leave before normal retirement in order to support my young children. My actual resignation came in February and I signed a contract with Atheneum at the same time; this was approximately four months before the Corporation vetoed the publication...