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Ultraviolet microscopy

"Uncles and aunts" (r
II
gene mutants)

Unit cell

Universe, age of

University College, London

University of California: Berkeley; Irvine; San Diego

University of Vienna

Uracil

Urease

Valine

Vand, Vladimir

van der Waal's forces

Variation: genetic; preservation of

Villa Serbelloni

Virology

Viruses: AIDS; bacteriophages; DNA; flu; mating of; mutants; plant; polio; RNA; size of; slow; pherical; structure of

Viscosity, of water

Vision: color; psychology of; psychophysics of

Vitamin C

Volkin, Elliot

Volkin-Astrachan RNA

 

 

Waddington, Conrad

Walden, Leonard

Wallace, Alfred

Wang, James

Water

Watson, Elizabeth

Watson, James; α helix work by; bacterial genetics and; bird- watching interests of; Cold Spring Harbor Symposium talk at; DNA double helix discovery and; DNA structure and;
The Double Helix
; experiences with books and movies about DNA; feelings on discovery of double helix; genetic code work by; mRNA work by; nature of genes and; Nobel Prize awarded to; papers on DNA structure; Phage Group and; protein synthesis and; RNA Tie Club and; viral structure and; X-ray crystallography and

Wave mechanics

Welch, Lloyd

What Is Life?
(Schroedinger)

Whose Life is It, Anyway?
(movie)

Wiesel, Torsten

Wilcox, Michael

Wilkins, Ethel

Wilkins, Maurice; DNA structure work by; personal interests of; movie characterization of; Nobel Prize awarded to; paper on DNA structure; ultraviolet microscopy by; X-ray crystallography work on DNA fibers

Wilson, H. R.

Wood's Hole

World War I

World War II; rise in influence of science due to; weapons research during

 

 

X-ray crystallography; of A form DNA; of α helix; of B form DNA; Bragg's law for; diffraction pattern; of DNA fibers; of DNA structure; of hemoglobin; major problem of; of myoglobin; of proteins; of synthetic peptides; theory of; of three-dimensional structure of proteins; of Z-DNA

X-ray spots

 

 

Yeas, Martynas

Yeast

 

 

Z-DNA

Zeeman, Christopher

Zipser, David

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