The Double Helix

The Double Helix

by James D. Watson Ph.D.

3 mentors recommend this 110 pages

Contemporary / British English James D. Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery of the double helix, the structure of DNA. In this book, James D. Watson tells the exciting story of this discovery.

ISBN: 9781405880336

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Peter Attia

Peter Attia

Health & Medicine

"[One of the] biographies of people who have 'built skyscrapers' (my term)."

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Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

Science & Research

"An astonishing literary achievement, and it was about the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th century."

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Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Business & Entrepreneurship

"The most impressive feature of The Double Helix is how much [the author] admits he didn't know. He's constantly talking about papers he couldn't understand and important concepts he didn't grasp."

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