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COVER PAGE
PROLOGUE: 19 OCTOBER 1962
1: BOOKS AND BIRDS: “GROWING UP” IN CHICAGO
“NO MONEY BUT LOTS OF BOOKS”
BIRD-WATCHING QUIZ KID
AVERY AND SCHRöDINGER
LEARNING TO THINK: COLLEGE AT 15
2: TARGET, THE GENE: BLOOMINGTON AND “PARADISE”
“HIGH-POWER MINDS”
“FUN AND GAMES” WITH MAX
X-RAY SURVIVAL
“LONG WINTER OF RAIN AND DARKNESS”
“WHY NOT ME?”
3: STUMBLING ON GOLD: TWO SMART ALECKS IN CAMBRIDGE
“A Nagging Yet Productive Symbiosis”
FIASCO
CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT DNA
LINUS’S MISTAKE
“JUST A BEAUTIFUL HELIX”
STEEPLECHASE
BASE PAIRING
4: A BEAUTIFUL MOLECULE: BEING BELIEVED
CONVINCING THEMSELVES
THE HIDDEN FUTURE
CONVINCING COLLEAGUES
ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY
THE FIRST PUBLICITY
CHANGE AT COLD SPRING HARBOR
“FOR A MOMENT, THE ROOM REMAINED SILENT”
5: NOW WHAT? THRASHING AROUND
“DEAR ROSALIND”
ROMANCE, A SUMMER IN CAMBRIDGE, AND THE GENETIC CODE
“MUCH TRAVAIL” IN PASADENA
A “WISKIE TWISTY” PARTY IN WOODS HOLE
JIM “WAS VERY INTROVERTED THEN”
GETTING JIM TO HARVARD
REJECTION
6: HARVARD: “FEW DARED CALL HIM TO ACCOUNT”
“A Laboratory of Special Influence”
MAKING ENEMIES
A “CONFIDENTIAL” STYLE OF LECTURING
GOADING YOUNG RESEARCHERS
VIRUSES AND CANCER
INCREASING FAME
NOBEL PRIZE
7: MANIFESTO ANDMARRIAGE
DEFINING THE FIELD: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE GENE
DOES THE RIBOSOME CARRY THE MESSAGE?
THE “PERFECT COUPLE”
MESSENGER RNA
GENETIC CODE
FORWARD GEAR
A VIEW FROM THE PERIPHERY
REVERSE GEAR
LIZ
8: “FRESH, ARROGANT, CATTY, BRATTY, AND FUNNY”
Watson: “I Can’t Imagine Francis Being Harmed”
CRICK: “A VIOLATION OF FRIENDSHIP”
LWOFF: “MAY GOD PROTECT US FROM SUCH FRIENDS!”
MORRISON: “SEEKING ROOM AT THE TOP”
WHY ALL THE FUSS?
9: A PASSION FOR BUILDING: COLD SPRING HARBOR
ALWAYS EDGY
“A LAB NEAR DEATH”
BIG GOALS
FIXING THE PLACE UP
THE CRUCIAL GIFT
“DNA TOWN”
LIMITS
MANAGEMENT STYLE
SUCCESSION
10: “HIGHER CELLS”: SCIENCE AT COLD SPRING HARBOR
THE PRESSURE TO KEEP IN TOUCH
“THE NEXT BIG HARD PROBLEM”
RESTRICTION ENZYMES
RETROVIRUSES
JIM DROPS IN
LIGHTING UP THE “CYTOSKELETON”
“EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD CAME THROUGH”
CLOSE QUARTERS
PRICE OF FAME
‘“HE’LL GIVE YOU A PROJECT”
“JIM WAS REALLY HEARTBROKEN”
“WE WERE HIS YEAST GUYS”
SPLIT GENES
GAZING “UPWARD AT THE BRAIN”
11: “ODDMAN OUT”: RECOMBINANT DNA
GERM WARFARE? “RIDICULOUS”
CLONING
“WAR” ON CANCER
ROBERT POLLACK HAS A FIT
“ALMOST MAGICAL” TOOLS
LETTER TO COLLEAGUES: HOLD OFF
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE BOMB
ASILOMAR II: “THE WORST WEEK OF MY LIFE”
HYSTERIA AFTER ASILOMAR
“I FELT WE WERE IN REAL TROUBLE”
THE CRITICAL YEAR: 1977
WAIT UNTIL THE SUN BURNS OUT?
12: GENOME: “IT IS SO OBVIOUS”
WHO?
A STARTLING IDEA
GENETIC FOCUS ON DISEASE
MAPPING, RADIATION, CANCER, GENE THERAPY, AND MACHINES
SANTA CRUZ
SANTA FE
STORM CLOUDS
EMOTION AT COLD SPRING HARBOR
HAMMERING OUT THE DEAL: BRUCE ALBERTS’ COMMITTEE
COLLIDING WITH DAVID BALTIMORE
START-UP
PREEMPTIVE STRIKE: “SOME VERY REAL DILEMMAS”
A SPLASH OF JINGOISM
OPPONENTS TRY AGAIN: “I’M SITTING HERE STARVING”
RECRUITING
“I WAS FIRED”
“THANK YOU, SIR”
EPILOGUE: “I’M AN OPTIMIST”
JAMES DEWEYWATSON: A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY
INTERVIEWS BY THE AUTHOR
NOTES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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