The Secret Of Life Rosalind Franklin James Watson Francis Crick And The Discovery Of Dnas Double Helix

Author : James D. Watson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307521486
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DNA written by James D. Watson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution—from Mendel’s garden to the double helix to the sequencing of the human genome and beyond. Watson’s lively, panoramic narrative begins with the fanciful speculations of the ancients as to why “like begets like” before skipping ahead to 1866, when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel first deduced the basic laws of inheritance. But genetics as we recognize it today—with its capacity, both thrilling and sobering, to manipulate the very essence of living things—came into being only with the rise of molecular investigations culminating in the breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, for which Watson shared a Nobel prize in 1962. In the DNA molecule’s graceful curves was the key to a whole new science. Having shown that the secret of life is chemical, modern genetics has set mankind off on a journey unimaginable just a few decades ago. Watson provides the general reader with clear explanations of molecular processes and emerging technologies. He shows us how DNA continues to alter our understanding of human origins, and of our identities as groups and as individuals. And with the insight of one who has remained close to every advance in research since the double helix, he reveals how genetics has unleashed a wealth of possibilities to alter the human condition—from genetically modified foods to genetically modified babies—and transformed itself from a domain of pure research into one of big business as well. It is a sometimes topsy-turvy world full of great minds and great egos, driven by ambitions to improve the human condition as well as to improve investment portfolios, a world vividly captured in these pages. Facing a future of choices and social and ethical implications of which we dare not remain uninformed, we could have no better guide than James Watson, who leads us with the same bravura storytelling that made The Double Helix one of the most successful books on science ever published. Infused with a scientist’s awe at nature’s marvels and a humanist’s profound sympathies, DNA is destined to become the classic telling of the defining scientific saga of our age.

Author : James D. Watson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684852799
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Helix written by James D. Watson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portions of this book were first published in The Atlantic monthly.

Author : James D. Watson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476715513
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix written by James D. Watson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick receiving the Nobel Prize, a freshly annotated and illustrated edition of The Double Helix provides new insights into a scientific revolution. Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA, an annotated and illustrated edition of this classic book gives new insights into the personal relationships between James Watson, Frances Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin, and the making of a scientific revolution.

Author : James D. Watson
Publisher : Heinemann Young Books
ISBN 13 : 9780434011162
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DNA written by James D. Watson and published by Heinemann Young Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with Francis Crick, James Watson was the discoverer of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, realising both how it was able to reproduce itself and how, through its immense variety, it was able to pass on genetic instructions from one generation to the next. Their discovery paved the way for fifty years of explosive scientific achievement, of extraordinary importance both in strictly scientific terms and for its technological and social significance. From Dolly the sheep to GM foods to designer babies, science-related newspaper headlines have been dominated by the implications of their work. In this book, written to tie-in with a major PBS series in the US, Watson tells the story of this research and its impact on the world in which we live, from its beginnings to the present.

Author : Danielle Smith-Llera
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756556422
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Helix written by Danielle Smith-Llera and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acid's structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery of DNA's structure before other scientists could beat them to it. They and others believed that finding the simple structure of the DNA molecule would answer a great mystery, how do organisms live, grow, develop, and survive, generation after generation? Photo 51 and subsequent models based on the photo would prove to be the key to unlocking the secret of life."--Publisher's website.

Author : James Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780225024
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Helix written by James Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of DNA. 'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an unusual substance, we are not hesitant in being bold' By elucidating the structure of DNA, the molecule underlying all life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionised biochemistry. At the time, Watson was only 24. His uncompromisingly honest account of those heady days lifts the lid on the real world of great scientists, with their very human faults and foibles, their petty rivalries and driving ambition. Above all, he captures the extraordinary excitement of their desperate efforts to beat their rivals at King's College to the solution to one of the great enigmas of the life sciences.

Author : Robert Olby
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486166597
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path to the Double Helix written by Robert Olby and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a noted historian of science, this in-depth account traces how Watson and Crick achieved one of science's most dramatic feats: their 1953 discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.

Author : Anne Sayre
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320442
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rosalind Franklin and DNA written by Anne Sayre and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the four scientists responsible for the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, the key to heredity in all living things.

Author : R. N. Albright
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477718095
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Helix Structure of DNA written by R. N. Albright and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique look at the study of DNA goes beyond the science and explores the lives of four great scientists: James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin. It was through their complex personal interactions and their devotion to the science that led to breakthroughs surrounding the structure of DNA and our modern understanding of genetics. Readers can learn that science is not about one individual and his or her discoveries, but is the work of many. Numerous scientific breakthroughs can be attributed to competition and rivalry.

Author : Brenda Maddox
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062283502
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rosalind Franklin written by Brenda Maddox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.