Word: helix
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...years after their epochal discovery, the men -- James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick -- began to drift apart. Though they have remained in touch -- except for a cooling-off period after Crick took exception to some of the material in Watson's best-selling book, The Double Helix -- they have seldom met in recent years...
Watson remained a working scientist for only a few more years, then bounced back and forth in academe, studying and teaching at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard, and writing The Double Helix. In 1968 he assumed the directorship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he has spruced up the once shabby campus and added to the scientific prestige of an already renowned institution. Taking on an added burden, Watson lobbied vigorously for the creation of the Human Genome Project and in 1988 became its director, guiding it through its first four years...
...your book The Double Helix, in which you colorfully described the events leading to the unveiling of DNA, gave many people their first glimpse of the human side of science -- the competition, the egos, the jealousies. In retrospect, do you wish you had written any sections differently...
JAMES WATSON, co-discoverer of DNA'S STRUCTURE, is hard at work on an autobiography, and the science world expects it to be every bit as frank and irreverent as The Double Helix, his acclaimed account of his Nobel- prizewinning work. In the sequel, there may be some choice words about Bernadine Healy, his former boss at the National Institutes of Health. Disputes between the two helped lead to Watson's resignation as head of the mammoth project to map the human genome...
Watson, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, says the patenting of sequences has become mired in controversy...