Watson and DNA : making a scientific revolution / Victor K. McElheny
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- 2401799
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- Author:
- McElheny, Victor K
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- Cambridge, MA : Perseus, c2003
- xiv, 365, [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0738203416
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- Machine derived contents note: Preface xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- PROLOGUE: 19 OCTOBER I962
- 1 BOOKS AND BIRDS: "GROWING UP" IN CHICAGO 5
- "No Money but Lots of Books"- Bird-watching Quiz
- Kid
- Avery and Schrodinger - Learning to Think:
- College at i5
- 2 TARGET, THE GENE: BLOOMINGTON AND "PARADISE" 17
- "High-Power Minds"- "Fun and Games" with Max -
- X-ray Survival "Long Winter of Rain and Darkness"-
- "Why Not Me?"
- 3 STUMBLING ON GOLD: TWO SMART ALECKS IN CAMBRIDGE 31
- 'A Nagging Yet Productive Symbiosis" - Fiasco - Can't
- Stop Thinking About DNA - Linus's Mistake - 'Just a
- Beautiful Helix"
- Steeplechase - Base Pairing
- 4 A BEAUTIFUL MOLECULE: BEING BELIEVED 61
- Convincing Themselves - The Hidden Future -
- Convincing Colleagues -Announcing the Discovery -
- The First Publicity - Change at Cold Spring Harbor -
- "For a Moment, the Room Remained Silent"
- 5 NOW WHAT? THRASHING AROUND 77
- "Dear Rosalind"- Romance, a Summer in Cambridge,
- and the Genetic Code - "Much Travail" in Pasadena -
- A "Wiskie Twisty"Party in Woods Hole-Jim "Was Very
- Introverted Then"
- GettingJim to Harvard - Rejection
- 6 HARVARD: "FEW DARED CALL HIM TO ACCOUNT" 95
- 'A Laboratory of Special Influence"- Making
- Enemies - A "Confidential" Style ofLecturing -
- Goading Young Researchers - Viruses and
- Cancer -Increasing Fame - Nobel Prize
- 7 MANIFESTO AND MARRIAGE 115
- Defining the Field: Molecular Biology of the Gene -
- Does the Ribosome Carry the Message? - The "Perfect
- Couple"- Messenger RNA- Genetic Code- Forward
- Gear -A Viewfrom the Periphery - Reverse Gear - Liz
- 8 "FRESH, ARROGANT, CATTY, BRATTY, AND FUNNY" 143
- Watson: "I Can't Imagine Francis Being Harmed" -
- Crick: 'A Violation of Friendship"- Lwoff "May God
- Protect Us from Such Friends!"- Morrison: "Seeking
- Room at the Top" - Why All the Fuss?
- 9 A PASSION FOR BUILDING: COLD SPRING HARBOR 155
- Always Edgy - 'A Lab Near Death"- Big Goals -
- Fixing the Place Up - The Crucial Gift "DNA
- Town"- Limits - Management Style - Succession
- 1O "HIGHER" CELLS: SCIENCE AT COLD SPRING HARBOR 179
- The Pressure to Keep in Touch - "The Next Big Hard
- Problem"- Restriction Enzymes - Retroviruses -Jim
- Drops In - Lighting Up the "Cytoskeleton"- "Everybody
- in the World Came Through"- Close Quarters - Price of
- Fame - "He'll Give You a Project"- 'Jim Was Really
- Heartbroken"- "We Were His Yeast Guys"- Split
- Genes - Gazing "Upward at the Brain"
- 11 "ODD MAN OUT": RECOMBINANT DNA 215
- Germ Warfare? "Ridiculous"- Cloning - "War" on
- Cancer - Robert Pollack Has a Fit - ' lmost Magical"
- Tools - Letter to Colleagues: Hold Off- Genetic
- Engineering and the Bomb - Asilomar II: "The Worst
- Week ofMy Life"- Hysteria After Asilomar "I Felt
- We Were in Real Trouble"- The Critical Year: 977 -
- Wait Until the Sun Burns Out?
- 12 GENOME: "IT IS So OBVIOUS" 239
- Who? -A Startling Idea - Genetic Focus on Disease -
- Mapping, Radiation, Cancer, Gene Therapy, And Machines
- Santa Cruz - Santa Fe - Storm Clouds - Emotion
- at Cold Spring Harbor - Hammering Out the Deal:
- Bruce Alberts' Committee Colliding with David
- Baltimore - Start-up - Preemptive Strike: "Some Very
- Real Dilemmas"-A Splash of ingoism - Opponents
- Try Again: "In Sitting Here Starving" - Recruiting -
- "I Was Fired"- "Thank You, Sir"
- EPILOGUE: "I'M AN OPTIMIST" 271
- James Dewey Watson: A Brief Chronology 279
- Interviews by the Author 285
- Notes 289
- Index 347
- About the Author 365.
- Notes:
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- "A Merloyd Lawrence book".
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-345) and index.
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