The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Norton Critical Edition

Author:   James D. Watson ,  Gunther S. Stent (University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Edition:   Critical edition
Volume:   0
ISBN:  

9780393950755


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 January 1980
Format:   Paperback
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: A Norton Critical Edition


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"Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In Criticism, which begins with ""A Review of the Reviews"" by Gunther Stent, other scientists and scholars reveal their own experiences and views of Watson's story. There are reviews by Philip Morrison, F. X. S., Richard C. Lewontin, Mary Ellmann, Robert L. Sinsheimer, John Lear, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, Conrad H. Waddington, Robert K. Merton, Peter M. Medawar, and André Lwoff; as well as three letters to the editor of Science by Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D. Watson."

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Author:   James D. Watson ,  Gunther S. Stent (University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Edition:   Critical edition
Volume:   0
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780393950755


ISBN 10:   0393950751
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 January 1980
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Gunther S. Stent was Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was the author of Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses, Papers in Bacterial Viruses, Molecular Genetics, and Paradoxes of Progress, and the editor of Function and Formation of Neural Systems and Morality as a Biological Phenomenon.

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