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London: Macmillan, 1954. 1st Edition. First edition of Gamow’s highly significant discovery of four different kinds of amino-acids – nucleotides – that were capable of information storage and transfer within a living cell. Gamow here proposes the ‘genetic code’ and proves that “life is guided by information and inorganic processes..... More