Description
The most interesting and portentous biological experiment of the 20th century authoritatively described by one of the three principal executants. --Sir Peter Medawar
The education of the transforming principle, i.s., genes, as DNA ranks with the contributions of Darwin and Mendel. Here is the chronicle of that revolutionary advance in biology told in eloquently humble fashion by one of the insiders . . . . This work gives another glimpse into the daily joys and frustrations of the scientific life, a story rarely told with such directness and candor. --Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D., president, Rockefeller University
Maclyn McCarty's The Transforming Principle is an elegantly written story of the discovery that DNA is hereditary material--perhaps the most important discovery in biology of the twentieth century. Also, it is the story of the scientists and the science which represents compelling reading for all science watchers. --Paul A. Marks, M.D., president, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Author: Maclyn McCarty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/1986
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780393304503
ISBN10: 0393304507
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Cell Biology
- Science | Life Sciences | Genetics & Genomics