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The Double Helix

Personal memoir of the discovery of DNA's double helix.

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It was originally scheduled for publication by Harvard University Press but was dropped after objections from Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.[1] The book was ultimately published by Atheneum in the United States and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK.[1]

Making and release

Harvard University Press dropped the arrangement after protestations from Crick and Wilkins, co-discoverers of the DNA structure.[1] Atheneum published the book in the United States, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson published it in the UK.[1] Sources for the annotations include newly discovered correspondence from Crick and papers of Franklin, Pauling, and Wilkins.[2] The edition includes a chapter dropped from the original that described Watson's holiday in the Italian Alps in 1952.[2]

The edition was favorably reviewed in The New York Times by Nicholas Wade.[2] Simon & Schuster, together with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, released a version of the book containing annotations and illustrations in November 2012.[2] The 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, awarded to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins, reached its fiftieth anniversary at the same time this new edition appeared.[2]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "The Double Helix" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Feldman, "The Nobel prize: a history of genius, controversy, and prestige", Arcade Publishing, 2001, p. 263 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "The Double Helix" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wade, "Twists in the Tale of the Great DNA Discovery", The New York Times, 2012-11-12 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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