Word: crick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobel Laureates are Francis Harry Compton Crick, 46, of Britain's Cambridge University; Chicago-born James Dewey Watson, 34, who worked with Crick and is now a professor of biology at Harvard; and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, 46, deputy director of the biophysics laboratory at King's College, London. None of them is a doctor of medicine; Wilkins is a physicist, the others are biologists. Between them they will share about...
...molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the kind of nucleic acid that controls the reproduction of most living cells. California's famed chemist, Nobelman Linus Pauling, had suggested that this monster molecule, containing hundreds of thousands, or even millions of atoms, might be built in a spiral. Crick, Watson and Wilkins were among the many scientists who eagerly tested Pauling's theory...
Magpie's Hut. Crick and Watson did their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin...
...about 40 minutes, Watson, a professor of Biology, spoke informally of the steps which led to his discovery of the molecular structure of DNA with Francis Crick...
Watson patiently described the model he had worked out with Crick...