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Genes, Girls, and Gamow
After the Double Helix
by James D. Watson
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage (January 07 2003)
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Chapter 1: Cambridge (England): April 1953
Although my hair was properly long and my accent toned to suggest almost an English origin, Odile Crick told me I had still far to go before I would look right walking along Cambridge's King's Parade, much less looking purposefully indolent in one of its


About the Author

James Dewey Watson, Ph.D.James Dewey Watson, Ph.D.

James D. Watson was director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York from 1968 to 1993 and is now its president. He was the first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research of the National Institutes of Health from 1989 to 1992. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, he has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.

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