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040			_aNISER LIBRARY _cNISER LIBRARY
041			_aEnglish
082			_a577.213.7 _bHAL-M
100			_aHall, Kersten T.
245			_aMan in the monkeynut coat: _bwilliam astbury and how wool wove a forgotten road to the double-helix
260			_aOxford: _bOxford University Press, _c2022
300			_aviii, 256p.; 24 b/w illustrations _bpbk.
504			_aTable 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
520			_aSir 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.
650			_aMOLECULAR BIOLOGY
650			_aX-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
650			_aDNA _xSTRUCTURE
650			_aAstbury, William Thomas, 1898-1961
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