Unravelling the Double Helix by Gareth Williams

Unravelling the Double Helix by Gareth WilliamsDNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piece of a huge jigsaw puzzle that other researchers had assembled over decades. Researchers like Maurice Wilkins (the 'Third Man of DNA') and Rosalind Franklin, famously demonised by Watson. Not forgetting the

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meticulously researched' Andrew McMillan

In Dangerous Women

Sensitively told and vibrantly brought to life on the page

Marshall is a master at explaining what you need to know and why

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved

'Energetic and compelling' Times

Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations

with the signature style and raw candidness of her personal writing

But the island can be fierce too

both now and in the recent past

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