Double Helix turns 50
Fifty years ago, on 28 February 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, UK, and announced something for which he would later share a Nobel Prize. "We have found the secret of life," his collaborator and subsequent fellow Nobel laureate James Watson later quoted him as saying. The pair really had figured out something very close to that. Working out the famous double helix structure of DNA was an achievement which led to countless advances and solved a mystery which had troubled scientists for decades. [ -BBC] [Celebrating 50 years of DNA]
Addendum
Today's NYT has a section celebrating the anniversary. Lots of good reads there.
Fifty years ago, on 28 February 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, UK, and announced something for which he would later share a Nobel Prize. "We have found the secret of life," his collaborator and subsequent fellow Nobel laureate James Watson later quoted him as saying. The pair really had figured out something very close to that. Working out the famous double helix structure of DNA was an achievement which led to countless advances and solved a mystery which had troubled scientists for decades. [ -BBC] [Celebrating 50 years of DNA]
Addendum
Today's NYT has a section celebrating the anniversary. Lots of good reads there.
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