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The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

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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 ...more
Paperback , 256 pages
Published December 1st 2005 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published January 1st 2003)
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