James D. Watson

The Double Helix


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Preface

Introduction
    Gunther S. Stent · The DNA Double Helix and the Rise of
      Molecular Biology
    Gunther S. Stent( The Author and Publication of The Double Helix
    Walter Sullivan · A Book that Couldn't Go to Harvard (1968)

The Text of The Double Helix (1968)
    
Three Other Perspectives
    Francis Crick · The Double Helix: A Personal View (1974)
    Linus Pauling · Molecular Basis for Biological Specificity
      ·1974)
    Aaron Klug · Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the
      Structure of DNA (1968)

The Reviews
    Gunther S. Stent · A Review of the Reviews
    Plilip Morrison · The Human Factor in a Science First (1968)
    F. X. S. · Notes of a Not-Watson (1968)
    Richard C. Lewontin · "Honest Jim" Watson's Big Thriller
      about DNA (1968)
    Mary Ellman · The Scientist Tells (1968)
    Robert L. Sinsheimer · The Double Helix (1968)
    John Lear · Hereditary Transactions (1968)
    Alex Comfort · Two Cultures No More (1968)
    Jacob Bronowski · Honest Jim and the Tinker Toy Model (1968)
    Conrad H. Waddington · Riding High on a Spiral (1968)
    Max F. Perutz, M. H. F. Wilkins, and James D. Watson · Three
      Letters to the Editor of Science (1969)
    Robert K. Merton · Making It Scientifically (1968)
    Peter B. Medawar · Lucky Jim (1968)
    AndrČ Lwoff · Truth, Truth, What is Truth (About How the
      Structure of DNA Was Discovered)? (1968)
    
Original Papers
    J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick · A Structure for Deoxyribose
      Nucleic Acid (Nature, April 25, 1953)
    J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick · Genetical Implications of the
      Strucure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (Nature, May 30, 1953)
    J. H. F. Wilkins, A. R. Stokes and H. R. Wilson · Molecular
      Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (Nature, April 25, 1953)
    R. E. Franklin and R. G. Gosling · Molecular Configuration in
      Sodium Thymonucleate (Nature, April 25, 1953)
    J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick · The Structure of DNA (Cold
      Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
, 1953)
    F. H. C. Crick and J. D. Watson · The complementary Structure of
      Deoxyribonucleic Acid (Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1954)
    
Index of Names

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