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Watson and DNA : making a scientific revolution by Victor K. McElheny is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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An account of one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past century... In 1950 a young American zoologist, James Watson, came to Cambridge to work on molecular biology. From 1950-1953 he worked with Francis Crick, during which time they solved the structure of DNA - seen as one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past century - and for which they were awarded a shared Nobel Prize in 1962. Watson returned to the US where he became Professor of Molecular Biology at Harvard and
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Victor K. McElheny
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780470854303
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biology, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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