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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782882003321

Autore

Wilkins Maurice <1916-2004.>

Titolo

The third man of the double helix [[electronic resource] ] : the autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-383-03124-X

1-280-75828-7

9786610758289

0-19-154731-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

571.4/092

B

Soggetti

Biophysicists - Great Britain

Physicists - Great Britain

DNA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

Working with Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA was a third man, Maurice Wilkins, based at King's College London with co-worker Rosalind Franklin. Franklin died in 1958 and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double Helix was awarded to the three men in 1962. As Maurice Wilkins explains in The Third Man of the Double Helix, ' the Franklin/Wilkins story has often been told as an example of the unjustness of male scientists towards their women colleagues, and questions have. been raised over whether credit was distributed fairly when the Nobel Prize was awarded. I have found this situ