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Nov. 16, 2012
The Double Helix and Beyond: Catching Up With James Watson
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In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick pieced together the structure of DNA — the now-famous double helix. To celebrate the release of a new annotated and illustrated edition of his 1968 book, The Double Helix, James Watson reflects on the groundbreaking discovery.
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Produced by Denise Chow, Associate Producer
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James Watson
Author, "The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix" (Simon & Schuster, Nov 2012)
Chancellor Emeritus
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix
by James D. Watson Ph.D., Alexander Gann, Jan Witkowski Ph.D.
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