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Nature 455, 871-872 (16 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455871a; Published online 15 October 2008

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A scientist's life for me

Georgina Ferry1

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Forty years after the publication of James Watson's The Double Helix, Georgina Ferry asks why the life stories of so few scientists make it into the bookshops.

In 1968 Peter Medawar, Nobel prizewinner and author of many witty reflections on science and its practitioners, consented to write a preface to Ronald Clark's biography of the influential British biologist J. B.