Watson and DNA: making a scientific revolution
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| adam_text | WATSON AND DNA
Making a Scientific Revolution
VICTOR K MCELHENY
A Merloyd Lawrence Book
PERSEUS PUBLISHING
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
PROLOGUE: 19 OCTOBER 1962 1
1 BOOKS AND BIRDS: GROWING UP IN CHICAGO 5
No Money but Lots of Books— Bird-watching Quiz
Kid —Avery and Schrodinger — Learning to Think:
College at 15
2 TARGET, THE GENE: BLOOMINGTON AND PARADISE 17
High-Power Minds— Fun and Games with Max —
X-ray Survival— Long Winter of Rain and Darkness—
Why Not Me?
3 STUMBUNG ON GOLD: TWO SMART ALECKS IN CAMBRIDGE 31
A Nagging Yet Productive Symbiosis—Fiasco — Can t
Stop Thinking About DNA — Linus s Mistake — Just a
Beautiful Helix— Steeplechase — Base Pairing
4 A BEAUTIFUL MOLECULE: BEING BELIEVED 61
Convincing Themselves — The Hidden Future —
Convincing Colleagues — Announcing the Discovery —
The First Publicity — Change at Cold Spring Harbor —
For a Moment, the Room Remained Silent
Vll
ii Contents
5 Now WHAT? THRASHING AROUND 77
Dear Rosalind— Romance, a Summer in Cambridge,
and the Genetic Code — Much Travail in Pasadena —
A Wiskie TwistyParty in Woods Hole — Jim Was Very
Introverted Then— Getting Jim to Harvard— Rejection
6 HARVARD: FEW DARED CALL HIM TO ACCOUNT 95
A Laboratory of Special Influence—Making
Enemies—A Confidential Style of Lecturing—
Goading Young Researchers — Viruses and
Cancer —Increasing Fame — Nobel Prize
7 MANIFESTO AND MARRIAGE 115
Defining tye Field: Molecular Biology of the Gene —
Does the Ribosome Carry the Message? — The Perfect
Couple—Messenger RNA— Genetic Code— Forward
Gear—A View from the Periphery — Reverse Gear — Liz
8 FRESH, ARROGANT, CATTY, BRATTY, AND FUNNY 143
Watson: I Can t Imagine Francis Being Harmed—
Crick: A Violation of Friendship— Lwoffi May God
Protect Us from Such Friends!—Morrison: Seeking
Room at the Top— Why All the Fuss?
9 A PASSION FOR BUILDING: COLD SPRING HARBOR 155
Always Edgy — A Lab Near Death— Big Goals —
Fixing the Place Up — The Crucial Gift— DNA
Town— Limits — Management Style — Succession
10 HIGHER CELLS: SCIENCE AT COLD SPRING HARBOR 179
The Pressure to Keep in Touch — The Next Big Hard
Problem— Restriction Enzymes — Retroviruses —Jim
Drops In — Lighting Up the Cytoskeleton— Everybody
in the World Came Through— Close Quarters — Price of
Fame — He ll Give You a Project— Jim Was Really
Heartbroken— We Were His Yeast Guys— Split
Genes — Gazing Upwardat the Brain
Contents ix
11 ODDMANOUT: RECOMBINANT DNA 215
Germ Warfare? Ridiculous— Cloning— War on
Cancer — Robert Pollack Has a Fit — Almost Magical
Tools — Letter to Colleagues: Hold Off— Genetic
Engineering and the Bomb—Asilomar II: The Worst
Week of My Life— Hysteria After Asilomar — I Felt
We Were in Real Trouble— The Critical Year: 1977 —
Wait Until the Sun Burns Out?
12 GENOME: I T IS S O OBVIOUS 239
Who?—A Startling Idea — Genetic Focus on Disease —
Mapping, Radiation, Cancer, Gene Therapy, And Machines
— Santa Cruz — Santa Fe — Storm Clouds — Emotion
at Cold Spring Harbor — Hammering Out the Deal:
Bruce Alberts Committee — Colliding with David
Baltimore — Start-up — Preemptive Strike: Some Very
Real Dilemmas—A Splash of Jingoism — Opponents
Try Again: I m Sitting Here Starving — Recruiting —
I Was Fired— Thank You, Sir
EPILOGUE: I M AN OPTIMIST 271
James Dewey Watson: A Brief Chronology 279
Interviews by the Author • 285
Notes 289
Index 347
About the Author 365
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