Table of Contents

Preface
List of plates
1: Distant shores
2: Finding my feet
3: In a world at war
4: Randall's circus
5: Crystal genes
6: Go back to your microscopes!
7: How does DNA keep its secrets?
8: The double helix
9: Living with the double helix
10: A broader view
Index

About the Author

Professor Maurice Wilkins, who died in 2004, was Emeritus Professor of Biophysics at King's College London.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition No intelligent person who wishes to know how the universe works should fail to read this book. Not only is it completely understandable to the layman, it is also often very amusing'
Arthur C. Clarke, Times Higher Education Supplement