BOOKS - POPULAR SCIENCE - Unravelling the Double Helix The Lost Heroes of DNA
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Unravelling the Double Helix The Lost Heroes of DNA
Author: Gareth Williams
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 504
Format: EPUB
File size: 16.7 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 504
Format: EPUB
File size: 16.7 MB
Language: ENG
An insightful history of the first hundred years of DNA, Unraveling The Double Helix tells the story one of the greatest triumphs of modern science.Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s to the publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the establishment of the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, x-ray crystallography, the atom bomb and two devastating world wars?events which are strung along the thread of DNA like beads on a necklace.