Obly Robert (1 results)
Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1974
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition of this work on the history of the double helix. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by both the author and Francis Crick on the title page, who contributed the foreword. The author has transcribed the following from this work, "The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all bi…ology in terms of physics and chemistry Robert Olby." Fine in a fine dust jacket. The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA, is a broad and comprehensive study of the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. "What I think is certain is that no future historian of science in this area will be able to ignore the present volume, both for the thoroughness of Olby's investigation and for the good judgment he brings to the task" (Francis Crick).
