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Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA
Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA, For James D. Watson, the year 2003 was momentous: The 50th anniversary of the discovery, with Francis Crick, of the DNA double helix; the 35th anniversary of the publication of his bestselling memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix; the 35th anniv, Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA, For James D. Watson, the year 2003 was momentous: The 50th anniversary of the discovery, with Francis Crick, of the DNA double helix; the 35th anniversary of the publication of his bestselling memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix; the 35th anniv, Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA
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  • Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA
  • Written by author John R. Inglis
  • Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, August 2003
  • For James D. Watson, the year 2003 was momentous: The 50th anniversary of the discovery, with Francis Crick, of the DNA double helix; the 35th anniversary of the publication of his bestselling memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix; the 35th anniv
  • Essays by friends and colleagues of one of the scientists credited with identifying the shape of DNA celebrate his scientific work over the past half century. Interspersed are some of his seminal articles. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland,
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Matt Ridley
James D. Watson's Life and Work: A Timeline
Section I-ORIGINS

Introduction: Student Days
Phage Days in Indiana, Renato Dulbecco
Quiz Kids, Gunther S. Stent
Some Early Recollections of Jim Watson, Seymour Benzer
REPRINT: The Properties of X-ray-inactivated Bacteriophage. I.
Inactivation by Direct Effect, James Dewey Watson
Section II-CAMBRIDGE

Introduction: Talking and Thinking
Jim's Cool Reception among the British Geneticists, Avrion Mitchison
Recollections of Jim Watson, Naomi Mitchison
Our Work on Virus Structure, Francis H.C. Crick
One Day in the Cavendish (April 1, 1953), Gerald Roland Pomerat
Jim and Syd, Sydney Brenner
A Letter to Jim, January 14, 2002, Max F. Perutz
Monday Morning Quarterback, Elof Carlson
"The Night before Crickmas," Rollin Hotchkiss
REPRINT: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick
REPRINT: Genetical Implications of the Structure of Dexoyribonucelic Acid, J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick
REPRINT: The Complementary Structure of Dexoyribonucleic Acid, F.H.C. Crick and J.D. Watson
1953 SYMPOSIUM

Introduction: A Day in June
Memories of the 1953 Symposium, Robert L. Sinsheimer, Julius Marmur, Charles Yanofsky, Louis Siminovitch, Frank Fenner, Roy J. Britten, Howard Green, Theodore T. Puck, Waclaw Szybalski, Joseph S. Gots, Hillary Koprowski
Symposium on "Viruses," The Long-Islander Article
Letter to Max Delbrück, James D. Watson
REPRINT: The Structure of DNA, J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick
Nobel Banquet Speech, James D. Watson
Section III-CAREER SCIENTIST

Introduction: Caltech, Cambridge, and Harvard
Remembering Delbrück, James D. Watson
Does RNA Form a Double Helix?, Alexander Rich
Flowers and Phage, Joan Steitz
On the Edge: My Time in Jim Watson's Lab, Benno Müller-Hill
When Ribosomes Were King, Alfred Tissières
It Smells Right..., Lionel V. Crawford
Excerpt from Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
Growing Up Around Jim, Jeffrey H. Miller
Seems Simple, Very Hard to Do, Mark Ptashne
Watson at Harvard (1956-1976), Paul Doty
REPRINT: Structure of Small Viruses, F.H.C. Crick and J.D. Watson
REPRINT: Unstable Ribonucleic Acid Revealed by Pulse Labelling of Escherichia coli, F. Gros, H. Hiatt, W. Gilbert, C.G. Kurland, R.W. Risebrough, and J.D. Watson
Section IV-COLD SPRING HARBOR
Introduction: An Emotional Attachment
Cold Spring Harbor 1958-1968: The Years between Demerec and Watson, John Cairns
Life with Jim, Norton D. Zinder
CSHL in the Sixties: A View from the Trenches, Ann Skalka
REPRINT: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Director's Report, 1989, James D. Watson
Jim as a Mentor, 1971-1974, Philip A. Sharp
From Development of Yeast Cells to Human Brain Hemispheres, Amar J.S. Klar
Big Shoes to Fill, with the Laces Untied, Bruce Stillman
Just Jim, Michael Wigler
Milestones and Mentoring: How Jim Watson Influenced a Scientific Career, Douglas Hanahan
CSHL in Transition, Raymond F. Gesteland
Cold Spring Harbor and Recombinant DNA, Thomas Maniatis
REPRINT: Origin of Concatemeric T7 DNA, J.D. Watson
Jim and the Board: Behind the Scenes, Bayard Clarkson
Vision, Innovation, Breadth, and Strength, David L. Luke III
Portraits: Robertson, Pulling, and Grace, James D. Watson
A Morning on the Porch, Jim Eisenman
An Architect at the Lab: Some Personal Recollections, William Grover
Section V-GENOMES
Introduction: Managing the Genome
Dr. Watson Goes to Washington, Bradie Metheny
Jim Watson and the Human Genome Project, James B. Wyngaarden
The Colossus of Codes, Robert Cook-Deegan
Jim and the Japanese Human Genome Project, Kenichi Matsubara
Climbing the Ladder of Life: James D. Watson and the ELSI Years, Nancy Wexler
Section VI-EDUCATION
Introduction: Communicating Science
The Pied Piper at Harvard, David Botstein
There Is More Yet to Come, Arnold J. Levine
What I Have Learned from Jim, Bruce M. Alberts
On Drawing Molecules, Keith Roberts
Education by the Sea Shore, Jan Witkowski and John Inglis
Endnotes
Bibliography-James D. Watson

Index

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