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angaq0k
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Jul 31, 2004, 07:08 PM
 
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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Jul 31, 2004, 07:12 PM
 
inscrutable impenetrable impregnable inconceivable
     
angaq0k  (op)
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Jul 31, 2004, 07:16 PM
 
Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
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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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Jul 31, 2004, 07:22 PM
 
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Jul 31, 2004, 07:31 PM
 
Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
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I am uglier than that!

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