The Double Helix
A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
About the book
The race to identify the structure of DNA is told from the inside in James D. Watson's 1968 memoir, which follows Watson, then 24, and Francis Crick as they compete with other researchers and above all try to beat Linus Pauling. Their discovery transformed biochemistry and earned a Nobel Prize. Watson portrays gifted scientists driven by very human ambition and bitter rivalry. The account has drawn lasting controversy over credit for the Nobel award and over its treatment of Rosalind Franklin, whose achievements Watson acknowledges in the epilogue. The Modern Library later ranked it seventh among the best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and the events were dramatized in the BBC television program Life Story.
Appian chief executive Matt Calkins said it gives an insider's view of how innovation happens, struggles and rivalry included, and read it as a business story that is really about science.
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Matt Calkins (CEO/Appian)
It gives you an insider’s look at how innovation happens, the struggles in it and the rivalry in the race to get to the heart of molecular structures. It felt like a business story but it’s really about science and innovation.
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