What Mad Pursuit
Published on 10. July 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-465-09138-6 (ISBN)
Description
Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-09138-6 (9780465091386)
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Person
Francis Crick is the Kieckhefer Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, regarded as the greatest biological advance of the twentieth century.
Content
* Introduction * Prologue * The Gossip Test * The Baffling Problem * Rocking the Boat * The a Helix * How to Live with a Golden Helix * Books and Movies About DNA * The Genetic Code * Fingerprinting Proteins * Theory in Molecular Biology * The Missing Messenger * Triplets * Conclusions * Epilogue: My Later Years