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Download or read book The Journal of Jacob Fowler written by Jacob Fowler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

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Download or read book The Secret of Life Rosalind Franklin James Watson Francis Crick and the Discovery of DNA s Double Helix written by Howard Markel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and why were they the ones who succeeded? In truth, the discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Each was fascinating and brilliant, with strong personalities that often clashed. Howard Markel skillfully re-creates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin—fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s, as the lone Jewish woman among young male scientists—who becomes a focal point for Markel. The Secret of Life is a story of genius and perseverance, but also a saga of cronyism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and misconduct. Drawing on voluminous archival research, including interviews with James Watson and with Franklin’s sister, Jenifer Glynn, Markel provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how reputations are undone, and how history is written, and revised. A vibrant evocation of Cambridge in the 1950s, Markel also provides colorful depictions of Watson and Crick—their competitiveness, idiosyncrasies, and youthful immaturity—and compelling portraits of Wilkins, Pauling, and most cogently, Rosalind Franklin. The Secret of Life is a lively and sweeping narrative of this landmark discovery, one that finally gives the woman at the center of this drama her due.

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Download or read book The Days of Darkness written by Donald J. Richardson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I began writing The Days of Darkness in 1972. Where the story came from I don’t recall, only that I envisioned a man running for his life. Perhaps there is some connection to the writings of William Faulkner whose works I was studying at the time. At any rate I wrote only a few thousand words before laying the manuscript aside. Over the next few years I added to it, but I think I didn’t have a clear notion of where the story was going or what was to happen. Only after three decades had elapsed did I return to the writing. As I re-read it, I began to formulate a notion of what to do with it and to explore where it might be directed. Gradually I resumed writing and added characters, discovering where it was leading and following some unstated inclination or impetus. Soon it began to take shape, forcing me to deal with the larger issues of North versus South, black versus white, justice versus injustice, and man versus woman. I suppose The Days of Darkness is in some arcane way allegorical. But it isn’t possible for me to explain that or even to explore it; to me it’s just a story I wrote in which I try to say something meaningful. I think that is what all stories try to do.

Download or read book Sifting Through the Madness written by Mike Maggio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-02-23 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crazed woman watches as a heard of wild animals stampedes through the house. A homeless Vietnam Vet chases a pair of elusive shoes across the city. On the last day of his career, a newly retired civil servant returns to his home only to find that everything he owns has suddenly disappeared. A desperate mother sacrifices her children in a futile effort to ward off danger. Sifting Through The Madness is a collection of strange characters and unusual stories that will delight, confound, frighten, entertain and leave the reader with an experience hard to forget. In his first collection of short fiction, originally published in electronic form and brought to print here for the first time, poet and fiction writer Mike Maggio delves full force into the modern human condition taking the reader breathlessly with him on a journey into lives and places that will remain in memory long after the reading is finished.