A revised and expanded edition of Judson"s 1978 history of the human and scientific origins of molecular biology, with new material on some of the principal figures involved, including Rosalind Franklin and Erwin Chargaff. Also includes a preface by Sir John Maddox, a new foreword, and an epilogue sketching the further development of molecular biology into the era of recombinant DNA. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.