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Crick is dead...
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DNA pioneer dies
The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Francis Crick, died on Wednesday aged 88. Crick shared the 1962 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for their determination of the two-chain helical structure of DNA, the polymer from which genes are made. He also worked out how the information contained in DNA is used to build proteins and later went on to investigate consciousness.
There was a very interesting book The Double Helix tells interestingly from a first person account the process of that discovery.
Sad but true, Rosalind Franklin was a unfairly set aside as a co-discoverer. A must read for anyone who has even only a mitigated interest in the scientific process!
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For crying out loud...
Where is my head? Have you seen it?
If you find it, can you tell it to go home now!
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Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
c pa moa �a...
I am uglier than that!
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"******* politics is for the ******* moment. ******** equations are for ******** Eternity." ******** Albert Einstein
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