Crick, Watson and DNA
1997
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3.45
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106
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Chronicling the birth of modern genetic science, the author focuses on Francis Crick and James Watson, the researchers who discovered the DNA molecule in the midst of often fierce international competition in the 1950s. Original.
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Author
Paul Strathern
Author · 70 books
Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972. Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics.
