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Accession 16527 ISBN — Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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By identifying the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won a Nobel Prize. All the time Watson was only twenty-four, a young zoologist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the identification of the basic building block of life. -- Trove First English edition of Watson's controversial personal account of the DNA discovery, affectionately inscribed by Watson to biochemist Mahlon Hoagland, the first person to describe tRNA, and his wife, Olley. This is the second-issue dust jacket; Watson demanded that the nearly unobtainable first-issue be retracted almost immediately claimed that it stirred up controversy and insulted Crick. He also threatened to file a lawsuit. Mahlon Hoagland, to whom this copy is inscribed, worked with Crick after describing the tRNA molecule: "It soon turned out that a biochemist at the Harvard Medical School, Mahlon Hoagland, had quite independently obtained some experimental evidence that supported my proposal [that a tRNA molecule of some sort must exist]... A little later Mahlon came to Cambridge for a year and we did experiments together on transfer RNA" (Crick, What Mad Pursuit, 96). "Olley" was Hoagland's second wife, a bookseller. Owner Signature. --Bauman Sale Description.

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