Maurice Wilkins: The Third Man of the Double Helix: An Autobiography

by Maurice Wilkins

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Quick, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helical structure of DNA? Most people would say Watson and Crick. But most people would make Maurice Wilkins very upset. The Rodney Dangerfield of biology, Wilkins shared the prize with Watson and Crick but missed out on the limelight, due largely to Watson's hit book, The Double Helix. Wilkins thought the book was so misleading he asked Harvard University Press not to publish it. Things have...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:019280667X

ISBN13:9780192806673

Release Date:December 2005

Publisher:OUP Oxford

Length:314 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Biological Sciences Biology Evolution Genetics History & Philosophy Medical

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