Man in the Monkeynut Coat - William Astbury and How Wool Wove a Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix

List of contents

• 1: A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words


• 2: Germany Has Much to Teach us


• 3: A Keen Young Man


• 4: Into the Wilderness


• 5: The X-Ray Vatican


• 6: A Pile of Pennies


• 7: Avery's Bombshell


• 8: Nunc Dimittis


• 9: One Grand Leap ... Too Far


• 10: The Road Not Taken


• 11: The Man in the Monkeynut Coat

About the author

Kersten Hall graduated from St. Anne's College, Oxford University, with BA Honours in Biochemistry before completing a PhD at the University of Leeds on the regulation of human genes by viruses. He then worked as a research fellow in molecular biology in the School of Medicine, University of Leeds. During this time he cultivated a growing interest in the history of science and is now a Visiting Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science at the University of Leeds where his research focuses on the history of genetics and molecular biology. He lives in Leeds with his wife and two sons.

Summary

Tells the story of the English physicist and molecular biologist William T. Astbury and how his work forms a previously untold chapter in the story of the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Additional text

This is an excellent account of molecular biology and Astbury's role in its history.

Product details

• Authors: KERSTEN T. HALL, Kersten T. (Visiting Fellow Hall, Hall Kersten T.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2022
• EAN: 9780198766964
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876696-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Yorkshire, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, SCIENCE / Physics / Crystallography, molecular biology, History of Science, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Crystallography, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Chemical biology