The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions), Book Cover May Vary

James D. Watson; Gunther S. Stent [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0393950751 / ISBN 13: 9780393950755

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1980

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions), Book Cover May Vary
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393950751
• ISBN 13: 9780393950755
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954.

In Criticism, which begins with "A Review of the Reviews" by Gunther Stent, other scientists and scholars reveal their own experiences and views of Watson's story. There are reviews by Philip Morrison, F. X. S., Richard C. Lewontin, Mary Ellmann, Robert L. Sinsheimer, John Lear, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, Conrad H. Waddington, Robert K. Merton, Peter M. Medawar, and André Lwoff; as well as three letters to the editor of Science by Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D. Watson.

About the Author

Gunther S. Stent was Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was the author of Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses, Papers in Bacterial Viruses, Molecular Genetics, and Paradoxes of Progress, and the editor of Function and Formation of Neural Systems and Morality as a Biological Phenomenon.