TY - BOOK AU - Wilkins,Maurice TI - The third man of the double helix: the autobiography of Maurice Wilkins SN - 019280667X AV - QH505 .W494 2005 U1 - 509.2 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Wilkins, Maurice, KW - Scientists KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - DNA KW - History KW - Discoveries in science KW - ADN KW - Histoire KW - Découvertes scientifiques KW - fast KW - Biographies N1 - Originally published: 2003; Includes index N2 - "Working with Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA was a third man, Maurice Wilkins, based at King's College London with co-worker Rosalind Franklin. Franklin died in 1958 and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double-Helix was awarded to the three men in 1962." "Maurice Wilkins, who died in 2004, reflects in his autobiography on the events surrounding the discovery, and also on the wider role of scientists in a world still coping with the Bomb and facing the implications of the gene revolution."--Jacket UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/2005472552-t.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0722/2005472552-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/2005472552-d.html ER -