Unravelling the Double Helix
The Lost Heroes of DNA
Unravelling the Double Helix covers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the late 1860s to the publication of Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. This is a saga packed with awful mistakes as well as brilliant science, with a wonderful cast of heroes and villains. Surprisingly, much of it is unfamiliar, because the early history is largely neglected by books which focus on the episode of the double helix. The elucidation of the double helix was one of the most brilliant gems of twentieth-century science, but Gareth Williams shows that to ignore everything that went before is as irrational as prisin…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4746-0936-4
- EAN: 9781474609364
- Produktnummer: 24410534
- Verlag: Orion
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.1 cm x D4.0 cm 643 g
- Gewicht: 643
Über den Autor
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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