The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
by Horace Freeland Judson
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A historical account of the central line of discoveries of molecular biology, how the discoveries came to be made, and the people who made them.Tags
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"The best book yet written about modern biology." Tom Wilkie, The Independent, 13 June 1995. I started to read this book in 1995, but found it hard work. I tried again in Covid-19 lockdown, and again found it hard work. For a book to prove both fascinating and difficult to read was unexpected. It is a significant record of biological research in the 20th century, but of its era.
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Horace Freeland Judson is the former director of the Center for History of Recent Science, which he founded at George Washington University.
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- Canonical title*
- Der 8. Tag der Schöpfung. Sternstunden der neuen Biologie
- Original title
- The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters*
- Francis Crick; James Watson; Rosalind Franklin
- Important places*
- Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, England
- Important events*
- Aufklärung des genetischen Code
- Original language*
- Englisch
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
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