The Double Helix: Forgotten Heroes of the Battle for DNA
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The Double Helix: Forgotten Heroes of the Battle for DNA
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Gareth Williams is an emeritus professor and former dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bristol; holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Angers; has written more than two dozen books and two hundred scientific papers; and is a past president of the Anglo-French Medical Society.
The history of DNA is a saga of brilliant scientific discoveries, incredible accidents, and blunders. It begins with the discovery of ‘nuclein’ in the late 1860s and ends with the publication of James Watson’s The Double Helix in 1968. In those 100 years, there have been the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, X-ray crystallography, radar, and the atomic bomb, not to mention two devastating world wars – all of which have had an impact on the discovery of DNA. James Watson and Francis Crick cracked the riddle of the double helix, but Gareth Williams shows that their contribution was the final piece of a giant puzzle that took decades to assemble by many forgotten scientists.
The Double Helix: The Forgotten Heroes of the Battle for DNA is about one of the greatest triumphs of modern science and the people who figured out the composition and structure of this mysterious molecule.
The history of DNA is a saga of brilliant scientific discoveries, incredible accidents, and blunders. It begins with the discovery of ‘nuclein’ in the late 1860s and ends with the publication of James Watson’s The Double Helix in 1968. In those 100 years, there have been the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, X-ray crystallography, radar, and the atomic bomb, not to mention two devastating world wars – all of which have had an impact on the discovery of DNA. James Watson and Francis Crick cracked the riddle of the double helix, but Gareth Williams shows that their contribution was the final piece of a giant puzzle that took decades to assemble by many forgotten scientists.
The Double Helix: The Forgotten Heroes of the Battle for DNA is about one of the greatest triumphs of modern science and the people who figured out the composition and structure of this mysterious molecule.
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