by James D. Watson, David Maule · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582451810
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This book, titled 'The Double Helix', is part of the 'Penguin Readers' series and is classified as level 6. Written by James D. Watson and David Maule, it tells the exciting story of the discovery of the structure of DNA. It is an educational and entertaining read for students of English as a second language.
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
