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OverviewFrancis Crick and Jim Watson are well known for their discovery of the structure of DNA in Cambridge in 1953. But they shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double Helix with a third man, Maurice Wilkins, a diffident physicist who did not enjoy the limelight. He and his team at King's College London had painstakingly measured the angles, bonds, and orientations of the DNA structure - data that inspired Crick and Watson's celebrated model - and they then spent many years demonstrating that Crick and Watson were right before the Prize was awarded in 1962. Wilkins's career had already embraced another momentous and highly controversial scientific achievement - he had worked during World War II on the atomic bomb project - and he was to face a new controversy in the 1970s when his co-worker at King's, the late Rosalind Franklin, was proclaimed the unsung heroine of the DNA story, and he was accused of exploiting her work. Now aged 86, Maurice Wilkins marks the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Double Helix by telling, for the first time, his own story of the discovery of the DNA structure and his relationship with Rosalind Franklin. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maurice WilkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.625kg ISBN: 9780198606659ISBN 10: 0198606656 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 January 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface; List of plates; 1. Distant shores; 2. Finding my feet; 3. In a world at war; 4. Randall's circus; 5. Crystal genes; 6. Go back to your microscopes!; 7. How does DNA keep its secrets?; 8. The double helix; 9. Living with the double helix; 10. A broader view; IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMaurice 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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