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The Secret of Life
- Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
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An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.
James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it? - and why were they the ones who succeeded?
In truth, the discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Each was fascinating and brilliant, with strong personalities that often clashed. Howard Markel skillfully recreates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin - fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s, as the lone Jewish woman among young male scientists - who becomes a focal point for Markel.
The Secret of Life is a story of genius and perseverance, but also a saga of cronyism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and misconduct. Drawing on voluminous archival research, including interviews with James Watson and with Franklin’s sister, Jenifer Glynn, Markel provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how reputations are undone, and how history is written, and revised.
A vibrant evocation of Cambridge in the 1950s, Markel also provides colorful depictions of Watson and Crick - their competitiveness, idiosyncrasies, and youthful immaturity - and compelling portraits of Wilkins, Pauling, and most cogently, Rosalind Franklin. The Secret of Life is a lively and sweeping narrative of this landmark discovery, one that finally gives the woman at the center of this drama her due.
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De: Jim Downs
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- De: David Wootton
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
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In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently.
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A Good Read Spoiled
- De David A. Donnelly en 12-23-16
De: David Wootton
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Tales from the Ant World
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg", writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species.
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Terrible narration, pointless rambling writing.
- De Kara en 12-09-21
De: Edward O. Wilson
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The Double Helix
- A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- De: James D. Watson
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.
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Star for Watson, Crick, Wilkins, AND for FRANKLIN
- De Darwin8u en 04-26-14
De: James D. Watson
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Origin Story
- The Trials of Charles Darwin
- De: Howard Markel
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians.
De: Howard Markel
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DNA
- The Story of the Genetic Revolution
- De: James D. Watson, Andrew Berry, Kevin Davies
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, and agricultural chemistry as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and cancer research. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative exploration of DNA's impact on our society and our world.
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Excellent review of Genetics Research
- De Bill en 11-26-18
De: James D. Watson, y otros
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Maladies of Empire
- How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- De: Jim Downs
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.
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Very Interesting
- De Timmy the G en 11-11-22
De: Jim Downs
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- De: David Wootton
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 22 h y 5 m
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In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently.
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A Good Read Spoiled
- De David A. Donnelly en 12-23-16
De: David Wootton
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Tales from the Ant World
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg", writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species.
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Terrible narration, pointless rambling writing.
- De Kara en 12-09-21
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Rosalind Franklin
- A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Duración: 58 m
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Rosalind Franklin was what can only be called an overlooked genius. Although she was not fully credited for the feat at the time, her work led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of DNA. In fact, she took the first X-ray photo of DNA in all of its double helix glory. By the time her former colleagues were being showered with accolades for results they made at least partially based on her findings, Franklin would not be around to see it. Sadly, it’s believed that her use of X-ray equipment gave her terminal cancer, cutting her life short at age 37.
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Covers the facts
- De Freda St en 08-21-24
De: Hourly History
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The Kelloggs
- The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
- De: Howard Markel
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.
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Good History, Best for Battle Creek Folks
- De ftmgal en 08-26-18
De: Howard Markel
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The Infinity Puzzle
- Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
- De: Frank Close
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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The second half of the 20th century witnessed a scientific gold rush as physicists raced to chart the inner workings of the atom. The stakes were high, the questions were big, and there were Nobel Prizes and everlasting glory to be won. Many mysteries of the atom came unraveled, but one remained intractable-what Frank Close calls the "Infinity Puzzle."
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Succinct exposition
- De Gary en 06-26-12
De: Frank Close
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The Space Race
- An Audible Original
- De: Colin Brake, Patrick Chapman, Richard Hollingham, y otros
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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A century ago very few people dreamed of space travel. Today it is the most daring and technologically sophisticated quest ever undertaken, being driven not just by government agencies such as NASA and ESA, but also by visionaries such as Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), Elon Musk (SpaceX) and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin). To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, this major drama-documentary series charts the definitive story of the past, present and future of humankind’s exploration of space. The Space Race is narrated by Kate Mulgrew and features a full cast.
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All Nonfiction Parts GREAT but Fiction Bad
- De Catherine Puma en 03-18-20
De: Colin Brake, y otros
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The Age of Wonder
- How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- De: Richard Holmes
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
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Misleading title
- De Diane en 08-04-11
De: Richard Holmes
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A Mind at Play
- How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- De: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the Digital Revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass.
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I wanted more information about Information Theory
- De Bonny en 05-08-18
De: Rob Goodman, y otros
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- Greynolds
- 01-22-22
A bit heavy on the detail
This is a meticulously reached book describing the people and events leading up to discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. It is an incredible story and the author does a masterful job of describing in particular the way in which Rosalind Franklin was marginalized and in effect written out of the record by Watson’s fictional tale The Double Helix. However in his desire to tell the “whole story” there is in my opinion way to much detail devoted to the minutiae of peoples lives. For example eating habits, interests in hiking, romantic disasters and personality quirks are given almost as much space as the central story itself. Some may love this detail and to a point it does add to the tapestry of the interactions of the people involved. I found it a bit tedious. That’s why the Performance and Story get 5 stars, but Overall gets only 4.
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- Hart
- 06-05-22
Finally, Rosalind Franklin gets her due.
An outstanding and thoroughly researched account of Rosalind Franklin's important contribution to the discovery of DNA. The narration is excellent and easy to listen to.
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- Stanley A. Shatsky
- 03-30-24
DNA's Discovery
Explains the history of the discovery of DNA, specifically the interactions of the competitors for the Noble Prize
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- Janet R. Covington
- 11-04-21
Odd choice of narrator
This book concerns the discovery of DNA by Watson, Crick and the other scientists who worked on the problem. Because all of the events take place in England I was quite surprised that the narrator was an American. On the whole he reads well, but the mispronunciations are jarring. There are certainly oddities in British pronunciation, but either he or an editor should check. When speaking of Grosvenor Square he pronounces it as it looks like it should be pronounced rather than the correct “Grovner”. The same happens with Caius College, which is properly pronounced “keys”. But the strangest of all is his pronunciation of “deoxyribonucleic”, where an “s” is added in the middle of the word . This happens at least twice, but later in the book this word is pronounced correctly. This should have been corrected, since either he or an editor noted the error. This may sound like nit-picking, but these errors interrupted my focus. It’s an interesting book but as an audiobook could have been so much better.
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- Dennis Jackson
- 04-30-23
Excellent
Mr. Markel makes an excellent case for the injustice done to Miss. Franklin and her work.
I’ll listen to this book again and share the story with those in my circle of influence that might give a shit.
Thank you Mr. Markel. God Bless
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- Ashley
- 03-07-22
Enjoyable and informative
I enjoyed most of the finer details of the scientific processes used. Just not the information about their love lives; I don't read romance novel's for a reason.
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- Janet L
- 08-27-22
So enlightening!
This is a remarkable, enlightening book. I cannot imagine the hours and hours of research. I wish everyone would read it. Rosalind Franklin gets her due, at last. So vastly much more enlightening than anything written by Watson. Thank you! This is a treasure.
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- TDR85
- 10-13-23
Enlightening
Superb story. You realize that Crick and Watson did first rate work on the structure of dna but the most important experimental data came from Franklin. She and Gosling toiled in her lab, often arduously to get the pictures, and then Franklin would do further mathematical analysis to interpret the x-ray pictures, in a hostile environment, and in the end…well she died young, probably from her very researches. Markel is a terrific science writer and the audio narration was up to the task.
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