The Third Man of the Double Helix

The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins

280 pages, parution le 05/08/2005

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Résumé

Working with Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA was a third man, Maurice Wilkins, based at King's College London with co-worker Rosalind Franklin. Franklin died in 1958 and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double Helix was awarded to the three men in 1962. As Maurice Wilkins explains in The Third Man of the Double Helix, ' the Franklin/Wilkins story has often been told as an example of the unjustness of male scientists towards their women colleagues, and questions have been raised over whether credit was distributed fairly when the Nobel Prize was awarded. I have found this situation distressing over the years, and I expect this book is in some ways my attempt to respond to these questions, and to tell my side of that story.'

Tells an as-yet-untold side of the story of the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA
Reveals the author's part in the life of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist viewed by many as having been unfairly treated by her male colleagues
Will be of great itnerest to those who have read and enjoyed the accounts by Jim Watson ("The Double Helix") and Francis Crick ("What Mad Pursuit") of this same period of scientific discovery
Also gives insights into the Manhattan Project, the development of radar, and the ever-increasing relations between biology, chemistry, and physics that have developed over the course of the twentieth century

Readership: General readers, especially those who interested in the discovery of the Double Helix and genetics in general; readers of biography and memoirs; historians of science.

Sommaire

List of plates
Distant shores
Finding my feet
In a world at war
Randall's circus
Crystal genes
Go back to your microscopes!
How does DNA keep its secrets?
The double helix
Living with the double helix
A broader view

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Maurice Wilkins
Parution	05/08/2005
Nb. de pages	280
Format	13 x 19,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	270g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780192806673
ISBN13	978-0-19-280667-3