DNA (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: James D. Watson, Andrew Berry
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Science, history of science, memoir, medicine, and natural history
- Time of Work: 1953-2003
- Setting: The United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: James Dewey Watson, Francis Crick, Linus Pauling, Craig Venter
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, History, Health and medicine, Science and technology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Human race, Medicine, Health, Genetics, Life, biological, Medical ethics, Heredity, Life sciences
- Locales: Europe, United States
Structures of molecules do not ordinarily make the covers of Time, Newsweek, and other popular magazines, but deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) did. Books about how molecular structures have been determined do not ordinarily become bestsellers, but James Watson’s The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1968) did. In the first half of the twentieth century, the structures of such biological molecules as DNA played little or no role in the thinking of biologists, medical researchers, and ethicists. In the second half of the twentieth...
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