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1. 1. The Eighth Day Of Creation

   Makers of the Revolution in Biology

   

   A richly detailed oral-history style chronicle of the founding years of molecular biology that traces how a small group of experimentalists and theorists transformed genetics into a molecular science; through meticulous accounts of landmark experiments, methods such as X-ray crystallography and bacterial genetics, and vivid portraits of key figures and their rivalries, it shows how the structure of DNA, the nature of the gene, the genetic code, and the mechanisms of protein synthesis were discovered and debated. The narrative emphasizes the interplay of accident, insight, personality, and collaboration in scientific discovery and conveys both the technical progress and human drama behind one of the twentieth century’s great intellectual revolutions.

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