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Critical fun with Francis Crick

机译:弗朗西斯·克里克的关键乐趣

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"I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood". This was the way Jim Watson began his controversial book The Double Helix. No wonder Crick felt taken aback by such seeming lack of solidarity towards an old friend and colleague - after all, they had together conquered the Everest of biology, opened up a new field of inquiry about the structure and function of the gene, and touched on the very nature of life. And this was just one example of Watson's snap judgments and indiscretions; there were more in a widely circulated early manuscript of the book, entitled "Honest Jim". In fact, few people in the manuscript or subsequent book escaped Watson's "over-honest" commentary - least of all himself. But it was the overall way in which Watson presented the story of the race for the double helix that galled Francis Crick and also Maurice Wilkins, Watson's co-laureates for the Nobel Prize in 1962 (Watson and Crick shared a half, Wilkins got the other half for his X-ray crystallographic work). Crick and Wilkins regarded this as Watson's highly personal version of the truth, and a book that could do potential damage. Their pressure on Harvard University Press not to publish Honest Jim succeeded, but the book could not be suppressed. The result was a somewhat less gossipy version, The Double Helix, published by Atheneum Press in 1966.
机译:“我从未见过温和的弗朗西斯·克里克”。这就是吉姆·沃森(Jim Watson)开始他有争议的书《双螺旋》的方式。难怪克里克对这种似乎对老朋友和同事缺乏团结的感觉感到惊讶-毕竟,他们共同征服了生物珠穆朗玛峰,开辟了一个有关基因结构和功能的新研究领域,并触及了生活的本质。这只是沃森做出迅速判断和轻率行为的一个例子。这本书的广泛发行的早期手稿中有更多内容,标题为“诚实的吉姆”。实际上,手稿或后续书籍中很少有人逃过沃森的“过分诚实”的评论-至少是他本人。但这是沃森提出双螺旋竞赛故事的整体方式,弗朗西斯·克里克(Francis Crick)和沃森(1962年诺贝尔奖的共同获奖者)莫里斯·威尔金斯(沃森和克里克共享一半,威尔金斯得到了另一个)一半用于他的X射线晶体学研究)。克里克和威尔金斯(Crick and Wilkins)将此视为沃森(Watson)对真理的高度个人化版本,并且这本书可能造成潜在的损害。他们向哈佛大学出版社施加压力,要求他们不要出版《诚实的吉姆》,但此书无法压制。结果是一个闲话少的版本,雅典娜出版社于1966年出版的《双螺旋》。

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  • 来源
    《Journal of Biosciences》 |2004年第4期|p.381-384|共4页
  • 作者

    ULLICA SEGERSTRALE;

  • 作者单位

    Department of social sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3301 south Dearborn Ave., SH116, Chicago, IL 60616-3793, USA;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 生物科学;
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 23:37:39

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