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The Double Helix, the Glossary

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA written by James D. Watson and published in 1968.^[1]

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Aaron Klug

Sir Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a British biophysicist and chemist.

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Alan Howard (actor)

Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE (5 August 1937 – 14 February 2015) was an English actor.

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Alex Comfort

Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972).

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André Michel Lwoff

André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.

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Anne Sayre

Anne Sayre (Colquhoun; April 10, 1923 – March 13, 1998) was an American writer well known for her biography of Rosalind Franklin, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA.

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Autobiography

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press was founded in 1933 to aid in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's purpose of furthering the advance and spread of scientific knowledge.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Erwin Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school.

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Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist.

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Gunther Stent

Gunther S. Stent (March 28, 1924 – June 12, 2008) was a graduate professor of molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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History of science

The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present.

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Horizon (British TV series)

Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC Two that covers science and philosophy.

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Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher.

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James Watson

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

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Jeff Goldblum

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an American actor and musician.

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Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, (born 30 October 1956) is an English actress of stage and screen.

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Kenneth R. Miller

Kenneth Raymond Miller (born July 14, 1948) is an American cell biologist, molecular biologist, and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Brown University.

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Life Story (film)

Life Story (known as The Race for the Double Helix in the United States) is a 1987 television historical drama which depicts the progress toward, and the competition for, the discovery of the structure of DNA in the early 1950s. The Double Helix and Life Story (film) are history of genetics.

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Linus Pauling

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. The Double Helix and Linus Pauling are history of genetics.

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Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction.

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Max Perutz

Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin.

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Mick Jackson (director)

Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943) is an English film director and television producer best known for the 1984 BAFTA Award-winning television film Threads.

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Modern Library

The Modern Library is an American book publishing imprint and formerly the parent company of Random House.

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Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction

The Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction was created in 1998 by the Modern Library.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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News Chronicle

The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper.

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Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Michael Landon Wade (born 17 May 1942) is a British author and journalist.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Nucleic acid double helix

In molecular biology, the term double helix refers to the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA.

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Peter Medawar

Sir Peter Brian Medawar (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants.

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Philip Morrison

Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Richard Lewontin

Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.

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Robert K. Merton

Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology.

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Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Helix

Also known as The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.

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1968 in science

Biology controversies

Science autobiographies

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