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One of the discoverers of the structure of DNA describes the extraordinary aftermath of their DNA breakthrough as some of the world's greatest scientists--Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman, and George Gamov, among others--competed in the new world of molecular biology, while his own efforts took another path--to find true love. By the author of The Double Helix. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles in the field of love and his heady inquiries in the field of science. He also reflects with touching candor on some of science’s other titans, from fellow Nobelists Linus Pauling and the incorrigible Richard Feynman to Russian physicist George Gamow, who loved whiskey, limericks, and card tricks as much as he did molecules and genes. What emerges is a refreshingly human portrait of a group of geniuses and a candid, often surprising account of how science is done.
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