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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
By Markel, Howard
- ISBN
- 9781324002239
- Publisher
- Norton
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Starred Review on September 1, 2021 | Science & Technology
This collective biography attempts to strip away the hyperbole that has grown up around the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. Markel (history of medicine, Univ. of Michigan; Anatomy of Addiction) begins the book with a brief sketch of the history of the field now known as genetics and recounts the early lives and careers of the scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. This sets the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
