Farooq Hussain

Farooq Hussain (born April 22, 1948) is an American author writing on the history of science and the impact of discoveries and technological innovation on society. He was born in Hyderabad, India, raised in the United Kingdom, and educated in England and the United States. He lives in Maryland near Washington, D.C. He is best known to historians of molecular biology for his 1977 reconstruction of the original Watson–Crick DNA double helix model, assembled from original components discovered at the University of Bristol.