What Mad Pursuit: a Personal View of Scientific Discovery 9780786725847, 0786725842, 0-465-09137-7, 0-465-09138-5, 978-0-465-09138-6

Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. &

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What Mad Pursuit: a Personal View of Scientific Discovery
9780786725847, 0786725842, 0-465-09137-7, 0-465-09138-5, 978-0-465-09138-6

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Francis Crick

Table of contents :
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

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