If you haven't read this yet - I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you should. It's not an overstatement to call it a classic and a unique narrative about how science is done. It's a simply wonderful account of the drama surrounding a key discovery. It checks all the boxes for me; scientific discovery, anglo-panache (if that's a thing), and a collection of aggressive personalities competing for a choice prize - the molecular structure of DNA.
Author/reseacher James Watson is a young (freshly-minted PhD), somewhat brash but always a humorous and entertaining storyteller.I've read this now three times (the first - around 1977 I think). It's that good. \mf
