Watson and DNA
Making a Scientific Revolution
(Sprache: Englisch)
An account of one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past century...
In 1950 a young American zoologist, James Watson, came to Cambridge to work on molecular biology. From 1950-1953 he worked with Francis Crick, during which time they solved...
In 1950 a young American zoologist, James Watson, came to Cambridge to work on molecular biology. From 1950-1953 he worked with Francis Crick, during which time they solved...
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An account of one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past century...In 1950 a young American zoologist, James Watson, came to Cambridge to work on molecular biology. From 1950-1953 he worked with Francis Crick, during which time they solved the structure of DNA - seen as one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past century - and for which they were awarded a shared Nobel Prize in 1962. Watson returned to the US where he became Professor of Molecular Biology at Harvard and subsequently Director of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory. He was appointed Head of the US Human Genome Project in 1988, and was pivotal to guiding the project through the controversy surrounding genetic research. His collaboration with The Wellcome Trust helped to establish the Sanger Centre as the focus for the UK sequencing effort of the human genome.
Giving a balanced view of Watson's whole life and work, this biography traces the stages of this discovery, the setbacks, false starts and breakthroughs, putting Watson and Crick within the context of the other work being done at the time. It also looks at Watson's whole career including his later genome work and his early life.
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From the contents:- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: 19 October 1962
- 1. Books and Birds: "Growing Up" in Chicago
- 2. Target, The Gene: Bloomington and "Paradise"
- 3. Stumbling on Gold: Two Smart Alecks in Cambridge
- 4. A Beautiful Molecule: Being Believed
- 5. Now What? Thrashing Around
- 6. Harvard: "Few Dared Call Him to Account"
- 7. Minifesto and Marriage
- 8. "Fresh, Arrogant, Catty, Bratty, and Funny"
- 9. A Passion for Building: Cold Spring Harbor
- 10. "Higher" Cells: Science at Cold Spring Harbor
- 11. "Odd Man Out": Recombinant DNA
- 12. Genome: "It Is So Obvious"
- Epilogue: "I'am an Optimist"
- James Dewey Watson: A Brief Chronology
- Interviews by the Author
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
Autoren-Porträt von Victor K. McElheny
Victor McElheny has covered the revolution in molecular biology for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Science for nearly four decades. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he started the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships. The author of Insisting on the Impossible, the biography of Edwin Land that the New Scientist called "insightful, exquisitely written," and Physics Today deemed "a major contribution," he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Victor K. McElheny
- 2003, 384 Seiten, Maße: 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470854308
- ISBN-13: 9780470854303
Sprache:
Englisch
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"...a vivid portrait of a man who himself is an institution...the book contains many insightful comments and quotations..." (Nature, 23 January 2003)"...rich in detail, McElheny has done his homework. As a consequence he gives the most insightful account..." (Yorkshire Post Magazine, 27 September 2003)
"...without bombarding the non-scientific minded reader with jargon, McElheny makes his subject universally appealing..." (Western Daily Press, 18 October 2003)
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