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Authors: Matthew Cobb
Life's Greatest Secret (79 page)
,
108
discovery of ‘split genes’
221
failure to take notes
99–100
,
109
first meeting with Crick
97
International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
232–3
on mRNA
167
Nobel Prize
207
‘photo
51
’ and
104–5
spoof letter on cybernetics
87–8
Watt, James
76
Ways of Knowing,
by John Pickstone
309
Weaver, Warren
21
,
23
,
77
,
79f
Weismann, August
3
,
138
,
260
,
262
What is life?
by Erwin Schrödinger
16–19
,
30
,
32
,
89
,
268
What is life?
lecture
11–15
White, Mike
248
Wiener, Margaret (née Engemann)
21
,
86
Wiener, Norbert
‘Behaviour, purpose and teleology’ paper
23
,
149
coinage of ‘cybernetics’
74
collaboration with von Neumann
27–32
contacts with Haldane
80–1
,
84
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
73–8
early work on anti-aircraft gunnery
21–5
in France
82
,
202–3
On the Human Use of Human Beings
83
,
268
influence, following publication of
Cybernetics
73–84
relations with Pitts and McCulloch
27
,
86
relations with Shannon
27
at Royaumont colloquium
202–3
on social effects of automation
83
,
310
‘Yellow Peril’ document
24–5
,
27
,
30
Wilkins, Maurice
and the atomic bomb
18
,
89
Furberg’s thesis and
92
inspiration by Schrödinger’s
What is life?
18
,
89
meeting with Francis Crick
89
Nobel Prize
207
reaction to double helix model
107–8
relations with Rosalind Franklin
96
,
98–9
,
101
,
107–8
reservations about second
Nature
letter
112
shows Watson ‘photo
51
’
104–5
Signer’s DNA samples and
92–3
Williams, ‘Freddie’
74
wobble hypothesis
211–12
Woese, Carl
200
,
203
,
238
,
292
Wolfe-Simon, Felisa
276
Wollman, Élie
155
,
158
,
160
,
162n
Wolpert, Lewis
85
,
298
,
300
women
featured in this book
310
gender equality issues
311
Nobel Prize and
246
Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory
61
,
77
,
124
Wrinch, Dorothy
9
X
X-rays
crucial work on DNA
96–106
early work on DNA
54
,
91–4
inducing mutations with
5–6
,
10
Patterson function
92
,
103
,
106
‘photo
51
’
104–5
Watson’s interest in
97
X shape X-ray signature
102
,
106
XNA (xeno-nucleic acids)
274–5
,
278
,
285
Y
Yanofsky, Charles
213
Yarus, Michael
289
,
294
Yates, Richard
154
,
168
Yčas, Martynas
122
,
142–3
,
149
,
167
yeasts
codon bias in
294–5
fermentation as biotechnology
269
mRNA in
167
prion transmission in
254
‘Yellow Peril’ document (Extrapolation, interpolation, and of stationary time series…)
24–5
,
27
,
30
Yockey, Hubert
142–3
Young, J(ohn) Z(achary)
82
,
146–7
Z
Z and P bases
278
Z form, DNA
273–4
Zaltzman, Perola
183
Zamecnik, Paul
134–5
,
176–7
,
190
Zamenhof, Steven
132
Zimmer, Karl
5
,
27
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