Davies, editor of the leading journal on genetics, and White, acclaimed author of science biographies, present a scientific detective story with all the drama of real-life discovery. Their book profiles such star researchers as Mark Skolnick, the discoverer of the gene, and his chief rivals--Mary Ciaire King, who began the search for the gene against all odds, and Francis Collins, discoverer of the genes for cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease.
- ISBN10 0471120251
- ISBN13 9780471120254
- Publish Date 26 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 16 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 310
- Language English