Unravelling the Double Helix
the lost heroes of dna
$37.90
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2020
Summary
DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle that other researchers had assembled over decades. Researchers like Maurice Wilkins (the ‘Third Man of DNA’) and Rosalind Franklin, famously demonised by Watson. Not forgetting the ‘lost heroes’ who fought to prove that DN…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474609371 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474609376 |
| Author: | Gareth Williams |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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Gareth Williams, the former dean of medicine at Bristol University, has woven a truly superb narrative from short biographies of all the scientists who contributed to, and in some cases just missed out on, the epochal discovery that the secret of life is a digital linear code written on DNA … By choosing to fill in the gaps in conventional accounts, Williams has done a good job of telling the whole story of science’s greatest discovery. He has done it with fluency and a real feel for narrative – Matt Ridley * The Times *This is a FANTASTIC book – Professor Alice Roberts via Twitter (@theAliceRoberts)…a riveting good read…Not only did I find it hard to put down, I’m now moved to seek out other science histories by Williams. Highly recommended. * CHEMISTRY WORLD *
About The Author
Gareth Williams
Gareth Williams is Emeritus Professor and former Dean of Medicine at the University of Bristol. His previous books for general readers are Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize of 2010), Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio and A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness. He is a past president of the Anglo-French Medical Society and has an honorary doctorate from the University of Angers. He is often to be found playing the flute or saxophone in and around Bristol.
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