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Mad hatters at the DNA tea party

Nature volume 415, pages 473–474 (2002)Cite this article

A unique discovery brings fresh insight to the discovery of DNA's structure.

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Acknowledgements

I thank David Micklos, who found the Pomerat memorandum; Darwin Stapleton of the Rockefeller Archives for permission to reprint it; and Robert Olby for comments.

Further Reading

Crick, F. H. C. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (Basic Books, New York, 1988) Judson, H.J. The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 1996) Kohler, R.E. Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists 1900–1945 (Univ. Chicago Press, 1991) Olby, R. The Path to the Double Helix (Dover, New York, 1994) Swann, B. & Aprahamian, F. J. D. Bernal: A Life in Science and Politics (Verso, London, 1999) Thomas, J.M. & Phillips D. The Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg (Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 1990) Watson, J. D. The Double Helix (Atheneum, New York, 1968)

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