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Unravelling the Double Helix - The Lost Heroes of DNA (Paperback)
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Unravelling the Double Helix - The Lost Heroes of DNA (Paperback)
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DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early
1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone
knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double
helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piece of a huge
jigsaw puzzle that other researchers had assembled over decades.
Researchers like Maurice Wilkins (the 'Third Man of DNA') and
Rosalind Franklin, famously demonised by Watson. Not forgetting the
'lost heroes' who fought to prove that DNA is the stuff of genes,
only to be airbrushed out of history. In Unravelling the Double
Helix, Professor Gareth Williams sets the record straight. He tells
the story of DNA in the round, from its discovery in pus-soaked
bandages in 1868 to the aftermath of Watson's best-seller The
Double Helix a century later. You don't need to be a scientist to
enjoy this book. It's a page-turner that unfolds like a detective
story, with suspense, false leads and treachery, and a fabulous
cast of noble heroes and back-stabbing villains. But beware: some
of the science is dreadful, and the heroes and villains may not be
the ones you expect.
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