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

1968; AIP Publishing; Volume: 21; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.3035117

1945-0699

James Dewey Watson, Samuel Devons,

Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

In 1962 the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology was awarded to Francis H.C. Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice H.F. Wilkins, the three men who, almost a decade earlier, had worked together at Cambridge, merging data from chemistry, physics and biology to solve the structure of DNA - Crick and Watson working to build a hypothetical model that would conform in all its parts to what Wilkins' X-ray pictures had already shown of the molecule. This is a reissue of the classic account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Watson also tells of the excitement of being a young American scientist in Cambridge - how hw saw the challenge of a great discovery waiting to be made.