Seeking the Secret of Life:
The DNA Story in New York
Bibliography
Further reading about the history of molecular biology and science, and the science of DNA.
Biography / Forensics / Genetic Engineering / Genetics and Ethics / History / Human Genome / rDNA / Science
Allen, Garland E.
Thomas Hunt Morgan : the man and his science
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1978
Morgan, Thomas Hunt (Unites States)
Geneticists - Biography
Shine, Ian. and Sylvia Wrobel
Thomas Hunt Morgan : pioneer of genetics / foreword by George W. Beadle.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1976
Morgan, Thomas Hunt (United States)
Geneticists – Biography
Carlson, Elof Axel
Genes, radiation, and society : the life and work of H.J. Muller
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1981
Muller, Hermann J. (United States)
Geneticists - Biography.
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
The tangled field : Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic control
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001
McClintock, Barbara (Unites States)
Women geneticists—Research--Biography
Crick, Francis
What mad pursuit : a personal view of scientific discovery
New York: Basic Books, c1988
Crick, Francis (England)
Molecular biology--History
Biologists – Physiciist -- Biography
Dubos, René J.
The professor, the institute, and DNA
New York: Rockefeller University Press, 1976
Avery, Oswald Theodore (United States)
Rockefeller University--History
Microbiologists—medical scientists -- Biography
Fischer, Ernst Peter
Thinking about science : Max Delbrück and the origins of molecular biology
New York : Norton, c1988
Delbrück, Max (United States)
Molecular biologists - Biography
Gillham, Nicholas W.
A life of Sir Francis Galton: from African exploration to the birth of eugenics
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2001
Galton, Francis, Sir (England)
Geneticists--Biography
Eugenics, genetics--History
Henig, Robin Marantz
The monk in the garden: the lost
and found genius of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Mendel, Gregor (Austria)
Geneticists--Biography
Hoagland, Mahlon B.
Toward the habit of truth : a life in science
New York: Norton, c1990
Hoagland, Mahlon B. (United States)
Biochemists, Molecular biologists -- Biography
Jacob, François
The statue within: an autobiography
New York : Basic Books, 1988
Jacob, François, 1920-
Geneticists (France)
Molecular biologists -- Biography
Kornberg, Arthur
For the love of enzymes : the odyssey of a biochemist
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989
Kornberg, Arthur (Unites States)
Biochemists--Biography
Luria, S. E.
A slot machine, a broken test tube : an autobiography
New York : Harper & Row, c1984
Luria, Salvador Edward (United States)
Virologists--Biography
Virologists--Italy—Biography
Maddox, Brenda
Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA
New York : HarperCollins, 2002
Franklin, Rosalind (Great Britain)
Women molecular biologists--Biography
DNA--Research—History
McCarty, Maclyn
The transforming principle : discovering that genes are made of DNA
New York: W.W. Norton, c1985
Genetic transformation
DNA
McElheny, Victor K.
Watson and DNA : making a scientific revolution
Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Pub., 2003
Watson, JD (Unites States)
Biologists -- Biography
Mullis, Kary
B.
Dancing naked in the mind field
New York : Pantheon Books, c1998
Mullis, Kary B (United States)
Sciences - Biography
Stahl, Franklin W., editor.
We Can Sleep Later: Alfred D. Hershey and the Origins of Molecular Biology.
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press., 2000.
Hershey, Alfred D (United States).
Molecular biologists--Biography
Watson, James D.
Genes, girls, and Gamow
New York : Oxford University Press, c2001
Watson, James D.
Molecular biologists – Biography
Watson, James D.; edited by Gunther S.
Stent.
The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA
New York: Norton, c1980
NOTE: First published in 1968
Watson, James D. Double Helix--Reviews
Watson, JD (United States)- biography
DNA
Genetic code
Molecular biology--History
Dwyer, Jim and Peter Neufeld, Barry
Scheck
Actual innocence : when justice goes wrong and how to make it right
New York: Doubleday, c2000
Judicial error--United States
Watson, James D. and Tooze J.
The DNA story: a documentary history of gene cloning
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co., c1981
Recombinant DNA--Research--History
Reilly, Philip
Abraham Lincoln’s DNA and other adventures in genetics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2000
Human genetics
Medical genetics
Genetic engineering
Tudge, Colin
The impact of the gene : from Mendel's peas to designer babies
New York : Hill and Wang, 2001
Genetics –
History, Genetic Engeenering
Kevles, Daniel J.
In the name of eugenics: genetics and the uses of human heredity
New York : Knopf, 1985
Eugenics
Heredity, Human
Race discrimination
Genetic engineering---History
Kitcher P.
The lives to come : the genetic revolution and human possibilities
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996
Human Genome Project
Human genetics
Watson, James D.
A passion for DNA : genes, genomes, and society / with an introduction, afterword, and
annotations by Walter B. Gratzer
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2000
Genetics--Social aspects
Molecular genetics
Science and civilization
Cairns, J., G.S. Stent, J.D. Watson,
editors.
Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology.
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press., 1992.
Bacteriophages
Molecular biology
Chadarevian, Soraya de
Designs for life: molecular biology after World War II
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Molecular biology--Great Britain—History--20th
century.
Chambers, Donald A., ed.
DNA : the double helix : perspective and prospective at forty years
(Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 758)
New York, N.Y.: New York Academy of Sciences, 1995
DNA—Nucleic acid – Molecular Biology
(history) Congresses.
Judson, Horace Freeland
The eighth day of creation : makers of the revolution in biology
Plainview, N.Y.: CSHL Press, 1996
Molecular biology--History
Kay, Lily E.
The molecular vision of life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the rise of the new
biology
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
Molecular biology – History
California Institute of Technology - Research – History
Rockefeller Foundation - Research - History
Keller, Evelyn Fox
The century of the gene
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
c2000
Genetics - History - 20th century
Morange, Michel
A history of molecular biology
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998
Molecular biology - History
Olby, Robert C.; foreword by Francis
Crick
The path to the double helix
London: Macmillan, 1974
Molecular biology—History
DNA
Pauly, Philip J.
Biologists and the promise of American life: from Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, C2000.
Biology --History
Perutz, Max
I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity.
Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press., 2002.
Science -- History
Portugal, Franklin H.
A century of DNA: a history of the discovery of the structure and function of the genetic
substance
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1977
DNA--History
Molecular genetics--History
Molecular biologists--Biography
Rabinow, Paul
Making PCR : a story of biotechnology
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996
Polymerase chain reaction--History
Soifer, Valerii
Lysenko and the tragedy of Soviet science
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Genetics (Russia)--History
Sturtevant, Alfred H.
A history of genetics
New York : Harper & Row, 1965
Genetics - History
Tudge, Colin
The impact of the gene : from Mendel's peas to designer babies
New York : Hill and Wang, 2001
Genetics -- History
Cook-Deegan, Robert M.
The gene wars : science, politics, and the human genome
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1994
Human Genome Project
Human gene mapping
Davies, Kevin
Cracking the genome : inside the race to unlock human DNA
New York: Free Press, c2001
Human Genome Project
Human genome
Davies, Kevin and Michael White
Breakthrough: the race to find the breast cancer gene
New York: J. Wiley, c1996
Breast Cancer--Genetic aspects
Hall, Stephen S.
Invisible frontiers: the race to synthesize a human gene
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1987
Genetic engineering
Recombinant DNA
Insulin—Biotechnology
Wexler, Alice
Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research
New York : Times Books : Random House, c1995
Wexler, Alice
Huntington's chorea--Patients--United States--Family relationships
Huntington's
chorea--Research--United States--History
Sulston, John and Georgina Ferry
The common thread : a story of science, politics, ethics, and the human genome
London ; New York : Bantam, c2002
Sulston, John
Human Genome Project
Watson, James D. and Andrew Berry
DNA: the secret of life
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
Genetics
DNA
Lear, John
Recombinant DNA : the untold story
New York : Crown Publishers, c1978
Recombinant DNA
Genetic engineering--Social aspects
Watson, James D. and Tooze J.
The DNA story: a documentary history of gene cloning
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co., c1981
Recombinant DNA--Research--History
Chargaff, Erwin.
Essays on nucleic acids
New York: Elsevier, 1963
Nucleic acids
Chargaff, Erwin.
The nucleic acids : chemistry and biology
New York, Academic Press, 1955
Nucleic acids
Jones, Walter
Nucleic acids: their chemical properties and physiological conduct
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920
Nucleic acids
Nucleic acids—Bibliography
Levene, P. A.
Nucleic acids
New York : The Chemical Catalog Company, 1931
Nucleic acids
Schrödinger, Erwin
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1944
Life (Biology) -- Biophysics
Watson, James D. ... [et. al]
Recombinant DNA. 2nd ed.
New York : Scientific American Books : Distributed by W.H. Freeman, c1992
Recombinant DNA