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About James D. Watson
See more books from this AuthorYes, Watson is at it again, recalling the turbulent decade that followed the world-shaking 1953 publication of the Watson-Crick model of DNA.
| Read Full Review of Genes, Girls, and Gamow: Afte...Genes, Girls and Gamow Jim Watson OUP £18.99, pp275 Jim Watson is, if nothing else, an awkward cuss, albeit a talented one.
Oct 14 2001 | Read Full Review of Genes, Girls, and Gamow: Afte...Readers also encounter the "pope-like" figure of Caltech chemist Linus Pauling, the bongo-playing genius physicist Richard Feynman and of course Russian theoretical physicist George Gamow, the "zany," card-trick playing, limerick-singing, booze-swilling, practical-joking "giant imp" who founded w...
| Read Full Review of Genes, Girls, and Gamow: Afte...And amid the feverish search for the role of the still mysterious RNA molecule, Watson's thoughts are seldom far from the supreme object of his affections, an enthralling Swarthmore coed named Christa, the daughter of the celebrated Harvard biologist Ernst Mayr.
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