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DNA Discovered, but by WHOM?

Project by Ms. H. Cleghorn for Essentials of Science 

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Primary Source:  First hand evidence of historical events or periods.
Secondary Source:  A later interpretation of historical events or periods.

Gale Student Resource Center:  DNA   Watson   Crick   Franklin
Watson & Crick   

There are magazines on the second floor of the ATMC.

Weblinks:
Crick:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53dn.html
DNA Puzzling: http://www.questacon.edu.au/html/dna_puzzle.html
Franklin:  http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/genome/DNA5b.html
Franklin:  http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html
Watson:  http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/Watson.html
Watson & Crick Crack the Code:  http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/watsoncrick.html

Books on the DNA/DNA Debate in the AT Media Center:
500.92 Fel                   

           Feldman, Anthony.  Scientists & inventors.  New York : Facts on

                File, c1979.

500.92 She                   

           Sherrow, Victoria.  Great scientists.  New York : Facts on File,

                c1992.

  574.8 Asi                    

           Asimov, Isaac, 1920-.  How did we find out about DNA?  New York :

                Walker, 1985.

  574.8 Fra                    

           Frankel, Edward.  DNA, the ladder of life.  2d ed.  New York :

                McGraw-Hill, c1979.

  574.8 Wat                    

           Watson, James D., 1928-.  The double helix; a personal account of

                the discovery of the structure of DNA,.  1st ed.  New York :

                Atheneum, 1968.

  574.8 You                    

           Young, John K.  Cells : amazing forms and functions.  New York :

                Franklin Watts, 1990.

  577 Cri                      

           Crick, Francis, 1916-.  Life itself : its origin and nature.  New

                York : Simon and Schuster, c1981.

920 Gro                      

           Gross, Marthe.  The possible dream; : ten who dared.  [1st ed.].

                Philadelphia, : Chilton Book Co., [1970].

920 Tin                      

           Tiner, John Hudson, 1944-.  100 scientists who changed the world.

                North American ed.  Milwaukee, WI : World Almanac, 2003.

920 You                      

           Yount, Lisa.  Twentieth-century women scientists.  New York :

                Facts on File, 1995..

921 Franklin, Rosalind       

           Senker, Cath.  Rosalind Franklin.  Austin, TX : Raintree

                Steck-Vaughn, c2003.

FL 920 Gal                   

           Gallardo-Cabello, Manuel.  Atrapados en la doble helice : James

                Watson y Francis Crick.  Mexico : Pangea, 1994..

R 609 Wor                    

           World of invention.  2nd ed.  Detroit : Gale, c1999..

R 920 Mag                    

           The Great scientists.  Danbury, Conn. : Grolier Educational

                Corp., 1989.

R 920 Scr                    

           The Scribner encyclopedia of American lives.  New York : Charles

                Scribner's Sons, c1998.....

R 920 Wor                    

           World Book's biographical encyclopedia of scientists.  Chicago :

                World Book, 2003.

R. 973.9 Tim                 

           People who shaped the century.  Alexandria, Va : Time-Life Books,

                c1999..

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