Life's Greatest Secret
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Matthew Cobb
Explore the fascinating history of molecular biology and the race to crack the genetic code in Life's Greatest Secret. Follow the journey of mathematician Norbert Wiener, physicist Erwin Schrödinger, information theorist Claude Shannon, and biologists Jacques Monod and Marshall Nirenberg as they struggle to find answers to questions they didn't know they had. Discover how each discovery propelled our understanding of the natural world forward and showed us just how much more we have yet to learn. Ultimately, this is a story of humans exploring what it is that makes us human.
Publish Date
2015-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
2015-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.94
ISBN
0884787433011
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2021-06-08T10:12:56.000Z
A nice article by Matthew showing how scientists found that the genetic code was a triplet code and details how it was decoded. If you want to go deeper, I highly recommend his book (written for the curious layperson), "Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code." – source