The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins - Rilegato

Wilkins, Maurice

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ISBN 10: 0198606656 ISBN 13: 9780198606659

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Quick, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helical structure of DNA? Most people would say Watson and Crick. But most people would make Maurice Wilkins very upset. The Rodney Dangerfield of biology, Wilkins shared the prize with Watson and Crick but missed out on the limelight, due largely to Watson's hit book, The Double Helix. Wilkins thought the book was so misleading he asked Harvard University Press not to publish it. Things have quieted down a bit now, and Wilkins is now telling the story his way. This book tells how he showed his colleagues the x-ray picture that gave them their crucial insight, and about his interactions with Rosalind Franklin, the researcher who actually created the picture, and who also received very little credit for her role in the discovery. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the DNA discovery. Finally Wilkins gets to have his say.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Maurice Wilkins is Emeritus Professor at King's College London, and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Crick and Watson for the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA.

Product Description:

Book by Wilkins Maurice

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0198606656
• ISBN 13: 9780198606659
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352