
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
Francis Crick
Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA.
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- Hachette UK
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- 9780786725847
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1989)
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