The Double Helix：A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Norton Critical Editions)

Sinceitspublicationin1968,TheDoubleHelixhasgivenoveramillionreadersarareandexcitinglookatonehighlysignificantpieceofscientificresearch--WatsonandCrick'sracetodiscoverthemolecularstructureofthegene.inthisNortonCriticalEdition,Watson'slivelyandirreverentaccountisplacedinhistoricalperspectivebyGuntherStent'sintroductionandbyretrospectiveviewsfromtwomajorfiguresintheadventure,FrancisCrickandLinusPauling,andbyRosalindFranklin'slaststudent,AaronKlug.BackgroundmaterialsincludereproductionsoftheoriginalscientificpapersinwhichthedoublehelicalstructureofDNAwasfirstpresentedin1953and1954.Inthecriticismsection,whichbeginswith'%ReviewoftheReviews"byGuntherStent,otherscientistsandscholarsrevealtheirownexperienceandviewsofWatson'sstory.TherearereviewsbyPhilipMorrison,F.X.S.,RichardC.Lewontin,MaryEllmann,RobertL.Sinsheimer,JohnLear,AlexComfort,JacobBronowski,ConradH.Waddington,RobertK.Merton,PeterM.Medawar,andAndr6Lwoff;andthreeletterstotheeditorofSciencebyMaxF.Perutz,M.H.F.Wilkins,andJamesD.Watson.