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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson- Hardcover- Atheneum, 1968
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA:
is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the DNA's double helix structure, written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. It has earned both critical and public praise, along with continuing controversy about credit for the Nobel award and attitudes towards female scientists at the time of the discovery.
Watson is a U.S. molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.
In 1998, the Modern Library placed The Double Helix at number 7 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century. In 2012, The Double Helix was named as one of the 88 "Books That Shaped America" by the Library of Congress.
Though an important book about an immensely important subject, it was and remains a controversial account. Though it was originally slated to be published by Harvard University Press, Watson's home university, Harvard dropped the arrangement after protestations from Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins,[1] co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, and it was published instead by Atheneum in the United States and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK.
The intimate first-person memoir about scientific discovery was unusual for its time. The book has been hailed for its highly personal view of scientific work, though it has been criticized as caring only about the glory of priority, and the author is claimed to be willing to appropriate data from others surreptitiously in order to obtain it. It has also been criticized as being disagreeably sexist towards Rosalind Franklin, another participant in the discovery, who was deceased by the time Watson's book was written.
The events described in the book were dramatized in a BBC television program Life Story (known as The Race for the Double Helix in the U.S.).
Condition Details
Very Good for its age, pages show moderate foxing, else clean, not marred by any markings, highlighting, or folding.
The dust jacket is very good for the age of the book, with moderate shelf wear. See the pictures gallery.
No sequential numbering is shown, suggesting the first edition.
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA:
is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the DNA's double helix structure, written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. It has earned both critical and public praise, along with continuing controversy about credit for the Nobel award and attitudes towards female scientists at the time of the discovery.
Watson is a U.S. molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.
In 1998, the Modern Library placed The Double Helix at number 7 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century. In 2012, The Double Helix was named as one of the 88 "Books That Shaped America" by the Library of Congress.
Though an important book about an immensely important subject, it was and remains a controversial account. Though it was originally slated to be published by Harvard University Press, Watson's home university, Harvard dropped the arrangement after protestations from Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins,[1] co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, and it was published instead by Atheneum in the United States and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK.
The intimate first-person memoir about scientific discovery was unusual for its time. The book has been hailed for its highly personal view of scientific work, though it has been criticized as caring only about the glory of priority, and the author is claimed to be willing to appropriate data from others surreptitiously in order to obtain it. It has also been criticized as being disagreeably sexist towards Rosalind Franklin, another participant in the discovery, who was deceased by the time Watson's book was written.
The events described in the book were dramatized in a BBC television program Life Story (known as The Race for the Double Helix in the U.S.).
Condition Details
Very Good for its age, pages show moderate foxing, else clean, not marred by any markings, highlighting, or folding.
The dust jacket is very good for the age of the book, with moderate shelf wear. See the pictures gallery.
No sequential numbering is shown, suggesting the first edition.
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