Word: dna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was how James D. Watson, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, described the genesis of The Double Helix, his controversial bestseller about the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule...
University Press refused to publish The Double Helix, Watson's highly personal account of the discovery of DNA...
Cold Spring Laboratory was the site of the most dramatic discoveries about DNA in the forties and fifties. In recent years it has deteriorated from a lack of personnel, inadequate facilities, and internal dissension...
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...
...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's "two cultures," but certainly narrows...