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Double Helix: How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life : How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life by Danielle Smith-Llera; content advisor, Brett Barker, PhD. Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin Marathon County is a children's nonfiction book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Double Helix: How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life : How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life about?

To the untrained eye, Photo 51 was simply a grainy black and white image of dark marks scattered in a rough cross shape. But to the eye of a trained scientist, it was a clear portrait of a DNA fiber taken with X-rays. And to young scientists James Watson and Francis Crick, it confirmed their guess of deoxyribonucleic acids structure. In 1953 the pair was racing toward solving the mystery of DNAs structure before other scientists could beat them to it. They and others believed that finding the

Who reads Double Helix: How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life : How an Image Sparked the Discovery of the Secret of Life?

It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.

Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.

Author
Danielle Smith-Llera; content advisor, Brett Barker, PhD. Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin Marathon County
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780756556464
Category
children's nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Medical, Literary Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

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