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The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson – review

Mar 11, 2021

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lauraspinney

in Genetics, History of science or medicine, Journalism, People

ONE of the most striking passages in Walter Isaacson’s new book comes towards the end. It is 2019 and a scientific meeting is under way at the famous Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory in New York State, but James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, is banned from it because of the racist and…