UID:
almahu_9949494482802882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 503 p.) :
,
ill.
ISBN:
9780300129663 (ebook) :
Content:
In 1957 Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a 'most beautiful' experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research - its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, as well as its frustrations, unexpected diversions away from original plans, and chronic uncertainty.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780300085402
Language:
English
URL:
Yale scholarship online
