Status: read in Czech

In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles in the field of love and his heady inquiries in the field of science. He also reflects with touching candor on some of science’s other titans, from fellow Nobelists Linus Pauling and the incorrigible Richard Feynman to Russian physicist George Gamow, who loved whiskey, limericks, and card tricks as much as he did molecules and genes. What emerges is a refreshingly human portrait of a group of geniuses and a candid, often surprising account of how science is done.

Rating: A book in which the reader learns a lot of details from the time after the discovery of DNA - as it all was, or wasn't, because the content is based on memories and letters of author, and time changes things in his own image. Anyway, a book is such a constant stream of varied information, a journal/monthly largely (probably unfortunately) not very scientific in nature, sometimes one can be lost in names and places.