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.
• The Origins of Mendelism; Constable 1966. 204 pages
• The Twentieth Century Sciences, Studies in the Biography of Ideas, edited 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
• The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA; University of Washington Press, Seattle 1974 & revised 1994)
• Companion to the History of Modern Science ; Routledge, London, 1990, 1081pp.
• "Robert Darlington: Forgotten Prophet of Genetics", American Scientist Nov-Dec 2004
• Nature 421 : 402-405.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:‘Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell ’, first published Sept 2004, 2680 words
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: ‘Bernal, Desmond ’, first published Sept 2004, 2870 words, with portrait illustration
• "Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,, published 25 August 2009; 450 pp; and Peter Lawrence's review in "Current Biology" .
• 'Crick, Francis Harry Compton ', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2008
• 'Perutz, Max Ferdinand ', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2008
• 'Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick ', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan. 2008