Research Catalog

Title

The path to the double helix : the discovery of DNA / Robert Olby.

Author

Olby, Robert C. (Robert Cecil)

Publication

New York : Dover Publications, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004,

Description

xxv, 522 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"This Dover edition, first published in 1994, is an unabridged, corrected and enlarged republication of the work published by the University of Washington Press, Seattle, Wash., 1974."--T.p. verso.

Subject

• DNA
• DNA
• Molecular Biology > history
• Molecular biology > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1974.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From colloidal particles to long-chain molecules : Bergmann, Staudinger, Svedberg, Polanyi, Mark, Astbury. The macromolecule ; The ultracentrifuge ; The fibre diagram and the long-chain molecule ; The Leeds School under Astbury ; Astbury under attack -- Nucleic acids and the nature of the hereditary material : Levene, Caspersson, Garrod, Muller, Darlington, Stanley. Kossel, Levene and the tetranucleotide hypothesis ; The nucleoprotein theory of the gene ; The physiology of the gene ; The enzyme theory of life ; The chemistry of virus-genes -- Bacterial transformation, its nature and implications : Griffith, Avery, Boivin, Vendrely, Chargraff, Wyatt. Bacterial transformation ; The identity of the transforming substance ; Support for Avery ; Base ratios -- Intellectual migrations : Delbrück, Schrödinger, Bernal, Perutz, Pauling, Watson and Crick. Physicists in biology : the informational school ; Physicists and chemists in biology : the structural school ; Pauling, Caltech and the a-helix ; Watson and Crick -- Hunting for the helix : Wilkins, Gosling, Furberg, Franklin, Pauling, Watson and Crick. DNA as a single- or multiple-strand helix ; DNA as a triple helix ; DNA as a double helix ; Conclusion.

ISBN

0486681173

LCCN

^^^94003665^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library