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Maurice Wilkins
The Third Man of the Double Helix: An Autobiography
Taschenbuch von Maurice Wilkins
Sprache: Englisch

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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 quieted down a bit now, and Wilkins is now telling the story his way. This book tells how he showed his colleagues the x-ray picture that gave them their crucial insight, and about his interactions with Rosalind Franklin, the researcher who actually created the picture, and who also received very little credit for her role in the discovery. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the DNA discovery. Finally Wilkins gets to have his say.
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 quieted down a bit now, and Wilkins is now telling the story his way. This book tells how he showed his colleagues the x-ray picture that gave them their crucial insight, and about his interactions with Rosalind Franklin, the researcher who actually created the picture, and who also received very little credit for her role in the discovery. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the DNA discovery. Finally Wilkins gets to have his say.
Über den Autor
Maurice Wilkins was born at Pongaroa, New Zealand, in 1916. He studied physics at Cambridge, graduating in 1938, and went on to work in J. T. (later Sir John) Randall's research group at Birmingham. In 1944 he moved to Berkeley, California, to work on the Manhattan Project. After the war he joined Randall's new biophysics group at St Andrews. The group moved in 1946 to King's College London and it was here where Wilkins began X-ray diffraction studies of DNA. These X-ray measurements, made with Rosalind Franklin and others, eventually established the correctness of the double helix structure of DNA proposed in 1953 by Watson and Crick at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. In 1962, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.

Emeritus Professor of Biophysics at King's College London, Maurice Wilkins lives in London with his wife Pat.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • List of plates

  • 1: Distant shores

  • 2: Finding my feet

  • 3: In a world at war

  • 4: Randall's circus

  • 5: Crystal genes

  • 6: Go back to your microscopes!

  • 7: How does DNA keep its secrets?

  • 8: The double helix

  • 9: Living with the double helix

  • 10: A broader view

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780192806673
ISBN-10: 019280667X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilkins, Maurice
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Maurice Wilkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2005
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
Artikel-ID: 123695237
Über den Autor
Maurice Wilkins was born at Pongaroa, New Zealand, in 1916. He studied physics at Cambridge, graduating in 1938, and went on to work in J. T. (later Sir John) Randall's research group at Birmingham. In 1944 he moved to Berkeley, California, to work on the Manhattan Project. After the war he joined Randall's new biophysics group at St Andrews. The group moved in 1946 to King's College London and it was here where Wilkins began X-ray diffraction studies of DNA. These X-ray measurements, made with Rosalind Franklin and others, eventually established the correctness of the double helix structure of DNA proposed in 1953 by Watson and Crick at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. In 1962, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.

Emeritus Professor of Biophysics at King's College London, Maurice Wilkins lives in London with his wife Pat.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • List of plates

  • 1: Distant shores

  • 2: Finding my feet

  • 3: In a world at war

  • 4: Randall's circus

  • 5: Crystal genes

  • 6: Go back to your microscopes!

  • 7: How does DNA keep its secrets?

  • 8: The double helix

  • 9: Living with the double helix

  • 10: A broader view

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780192806673
ISBN-10: 019280667X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilkins, Maurice
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Maurice Wilkins
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2005
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
Artikel-ID: 123695237
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