Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Published by Basic Books, 2003
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- Title
- Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution
- Author
- Mcelheny, Victor K.
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0738203416
- ISBN 13
- 9780738203416
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Review
"...packed with factual information, anecdotes and gossip about those involved...this book will be a riveting read..." (New Scientist, 15 March 2003)
"...to molecular biologists and history of science aficionados, this biography will be both a great pleasure and a great resource..." (Spectator, 8 March 2003)
"... McElheny presents the science in this amazing story with effortless lucidity...McElheny has done a good job, producing a warts–and–all portrait..." (The Guardian, 15 March 2003)
"...McElheny has researched the story of Watson′s extraordinary life diligently...and recounted it fairly and with occasional panache..." (The Sunday Telegraph23 March 2003
"...an excellent third–person account in Victor McElenhy’s Watson and DNA for its invaluable array of objective character perspectives..." (The Sunday Times, 23 March 2003)
′... brings a clear eye to the hard–to–explain combination of Watson′s abrasive personality and unremitting achievement.′ (Manchester Guardian Weekly, 2 April 2003)
′... challenges the simplicity of both the science and the person in ways that make both more real.′ (Focus, May 2003)
"...a marvellous insight...a fine biography, many years in the making and containing plenty of new material..." (Chemistry in Britain, April 2003)
"...McElhwny provides a very full account of Watson’s life and scientific contributions..." (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 25 April 2003)
"... for those with a predilection for the minutiae of this historical event, McElheny is your only man..." (Irish Times (Dublin), 19 April 2003)
"Watson has told his own story, piecemeal, in several books: this one by a veteran newspaperman does it well, and warmly, in one narrative..." (Lancet, 19 April 2003)
No 6 in Bestsellers Cambridge list (New Scientist, 26 April 2003)
"...there is plenty more in this book to keep you turning the pages..." (British Society for Cell Biology Newsletter, Summer 2003)
"...This book puts the discovery of the double helix into context and explains how the effects of the discovery will resonate for many years..." (www.relaxwithabook.com 13June 2003)
"...there is plenty more in this book to keep you turning the pages..." (British Society for Developmental Biology Newsletter, Summer 2003)
‘...informative, entertaining, and well–written.’ (The Biochemist, 10 July 2003)
"...The story is the most fascinating in the history of science..." (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, September 2003)
“This is a life well worth chronicling, and McElheny has made a good job of it ...” (Cambridge – The Magazine of the Cambridge Society, February 2004)
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