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The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix (Record no. 7797)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198704591
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 572.86
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hall, Kersten T.
9 (RLIN) 382616
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 12 Jun 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 256 Pages;
Other physical details Hardback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'. The same might also be said of the scientists James Watson and Francis Crick. Their discovery of the structure of DNA was, without doubt, one of the biggest scientific landmarks in history and, thanks largely to the success of Watson's best-selling memoir 'The Double Helix', there might seem to be little new to say about this story. But much remains to be said about the particular 'giants' on whose shoulders Watson and Crick stood. Of these, the crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose famous X-ray diffraction photograph known as 'Photo 51' provided Watson and Crick with a vital clue, is now well recognised. Far less well known is the physicist William T. Astbury who, working at Leeds in the 1930s on the structure of wool for the local textile industry, pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography to study biological fibres. In so doing, he not only made the very first studies of the structure of DNA culminating in a photo almost identical to Franklin's 'Photo 51', but also founded the new science of 'molecular biology'. Yet whilst Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize, Astbury has largely been forgotten. The Man in the Monkeynut Coat tells the story of this neglected pioneer, showing not only how it was thanks to him that Watson and Crick were not left empty-handed, but also how his ideas transformed biology leaving a legacy which is still felt today.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element DNA & Genome
9 (RLIN) 382617
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of science
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular science
9 (RLIN) 382619
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Science 26/08/2016   572.86 PKLC009856 04/09/2018 26/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17  
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Science 26/04/2016   572.86 PKLC003297 26/04/2016 26/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale