Robert Olby - Books and Papers By Robert Olby

Books and Papers By Robert Olby

  • Charles Darwin; Oxford University Press, London, 1967, 64pp.
  • Early Nineteenth Century European Scientists; Pergamon Press, 1967, 179pp. ISBN 0-415-14578-3
  • The Origins of Mendelism; Constable 1966. 204 pages ISBN 0-226-62592-3
  • The Twentieth Century Sciences, Studies in the Biography of Ideas, editited by Gerald Holton; W.W. Norton & Co., New York 1972: article "Francis Crick, DNA, and the Central Dogma".
  • 'Rosalind Elsie Franklin' biography in "Dictionary of Scientific Biography", ed. Charles C. Gillespie (New York: Charles Scribner's sons) ISBN 0-684-10121-1
  • The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA; University of Washington Press, Seattle 1974 & revised 1994) ISBN 0-486-68117-3
  • Companion to the History of Modern Science (ed.); Routledge, London, 1990, 1081pp. ISBN 0-415-01988-5
  • "Robert Darlington: Forgotten Prophet of Genetics", American Scientist Nov-Dec 2004
  • "Quiet debut for the double helix" Nature 421 (January 23, 2003): 402-405.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:‘Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell (1887–1975)’, first published Sept 2004, 2680 words
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: ‘Bernal, (John) Desmond (1901–1971)’, first published Sept 2004, 2870 words, with portrait illustration
  • "Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, ISBN 978-0-87969-798-3, published 25 August 2009; 450 pp; and Peter Lawrence's review in "Current Biology" .

Contents: Time Line Introduction 1. The Call to Stockholm 2. A Difficult Act to Follow 3. From the Provinces to the Big City 4. War Work for the Royal Navy 5. Biology at the Strangeways 6. Helical Molecules at the Cavendish Laboratory 7. The DNA Fiasco 8. "Two Pitchmen in Search of A Helix" (Erwin Chargaff) 9. A Most Important Discovery 10. Publishing the Model 11. Employed by "the John Wayne of Crystallography" (Vittorio Luzzati) 12. The Genetic Code 13. Preaching the Central Dogma 14. Crick as Experimentalist 15. The Excitement of the Sixties 16. Speaking out on Controversial Subjects 17. Biological Complexity 18. Leaving the 'Old Country 19. Taking the Plunge: Neuroscience 20. From the Searchlight to the Soul 21. Eighty Eight Years Biographical Index Subject Index

‘Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916–2004)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008*

'Perutz, Max Ferdinand (1914-2002), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008*

'Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2008*

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