Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix

Name: Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9780375727153-G
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By Watson, James D.

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In the years following his and Francis Crick's towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles in the field of love and his heady inquiries in the field of science. He also reflects with touching candor on some of science's other titans, from fellow Nobelists Linus Pauling and the incorrigible Richard Feynman to Russian physicist George Gamow, who loved whiskey, limericks, and card tricks as much as he did molecules and genes. What emerges is a refreshingly human portrait of a group of geniuses and a candid, often surprising account of how science is done.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 337
Release Date:: 2003-01-07
Publication Date:: 2003-01-07
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0375727159
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 308 g
Height:: 20.3 cm
Width:: 13.1 cm
Thickness:: 2.1 cm

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