What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery

En estas animadas memorias, el autor nos narra, entre otras cosas, su vida «anterior a la doble hélice», su implicación en el descubrimiento del mayor adelanto científico del siglo XX, la forma en la …

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