The Third Man of the Double Helix

by Maurice Wilkins

Book Overview

Quick, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double helical structure of DNA? Most people would say Watson and Crick. But most people would make Maurice Wilkins very upset. The Rodney Dangerfield of biology, Wilkins shared the prize with Watson and Crick but missed out on the limelight, due largely to Watson's hit book, The Double Helix. Wilkins thought the book was so misleading he asked Harvard University Press not to publish it. Things have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198606656
• ISBN13: 9780198606659
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.7"