What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
Author(s): Francis Crick
Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA..
General Information
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- : The Perseus Books Group
- : Basic Books
- : 0.136
- : 18 June 1990
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Francis Crick
- : Paperback
- : 572.86092
- : 208
- : b&w photographs, index, tables
More About The Product
Francis Crick is the Kieckhefer Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, regarded as the greatest biological advance of the twentieth century.
* Introduction * Prologue * The Gossip Test * The Baffling Problem * Rocking the Boat * The a Helix * How to Live with a Golden Helix * Books and Movies About DNA * The Genetic Code * Fingerprinting Proteins * Theory in Molecular Biology * The Missing Messenger * Triplets * Conclusions * Epilogue: My Later Years