The Double Helix (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: James D. Watson
- First Published: 1968
- Time of Work: 1951–1953
- Setting: The Cavendish laboratory, King’s College, the University of Cambridge, England
- Principal Characters: James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Max Perutz, Sir Lawrence Bragg, Linus Pauling
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Science and technology
- Subjects: Ambition, Nobel Prizes, Genetics, Biography, Discoveries, DNA, Research, Biology or biologists
- Locales: Cambridge, England
Form and Content
James D. Watson’s The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is the author’s own account of perhaps the greatest biological breakthrough of the twentieth century. Watson describes key events and people that contributed the missing pieces to the puzzle of DNA structure. The book also is a study in human nature and the methods of science, as the author candidly examines the characters of the people with whom he worked and competed during the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Watson’s book is...
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