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...that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of wife.” This statement, from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, launches James D. Watson’s new memoir, Genes, Girls, and Gamow, which picks up where The Double Helix, his first memoir, left off. Although the title suggests a tripartite focus, the “girls” portion certainly dominates the book and much of the reader’s attention is focused on Watson’s pursuit of a wife from...
Genes, Girls, and Gamow lacks the level of acerbity of the controversial The Double Helix, but still contains considerable bite, considering Watson’s matter-of-fact refusal to sugar-coat his judgments. Even his good friend, Gamow, is described rather unflatteringly as possessing a “high-pitched squeal” which “did not go with his generous bulk.” The Biological Labs of Harvard “reeked of ’30s mustiness,” and Linus Pauling is “a popelike figure.” Watson...
...DIVING INTO THE GENE POOL: Kirkus gives a spirited starred review to "Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix" by James D. Watson (Knopf; February 5). "Part memoir, part love story, part homage to the brilliant physicist George ('Geo,' pronounced Joe) Gamow, this is another tell-all tale in the tradition of the 'The Double Helix.' Yes, Watson is at it again, recalling the turbulent decade that followed the world-shaking publication of the Watson-Crick model of DNA...Watson seems more tempered this time around, especially in the treatment of Rosalind Franklin. But the urge to reveal...
...living cell bustles with molecular activity. Lilliputian protein motors ferry goods and services. Enzymes curl and unfurl. Even on its calmest days, the DNA double-helix twists, unwinds and wiggles like a loopy spring...
Nobel laureate James Watson, who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA and poke at the conference's opening yesterday, said he was "moved by Reno's human qualities and regard for democracy." He added that he had never heard the attorney general speak before...