What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View Of Scientific Discovery

Author: Francis Crick

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Price : $27.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780465091386
Publisher : The Perseus Books Group
Imprint : Basic Books
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Weight (g) : 0.136
Publication date : 18 June 1990
Dimensions : 204mm X 127mm X 13mm
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Author : Francis Crick
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Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA..

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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.

* 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