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Watson and Crick are reunited to mark an epic event...
...article was only 900 words long, but its contents helped usher in a revolution. With bland understatement, James Watson, then 25, a freshly minted Ph.D. in zoology from Indiana University, and Francis Crick, a 36-year-old dropout from physics who had developed a belated interest in biochemistry, announced the solution to a puzzle that had stymied the scientific world. Though neither was especially equipped by training or experience for so challenging a task, they had unraveled the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, the basic molecule of heredity...
Taking refuge from the storms of competitive Cambridge, in a small and modest white frame house an Appian Way, an English scientist named Francis Crick is handing across a rickety formica a kitchen table to Harvard scientist James D. Watson a many-times of initials are scratched, chart like, in pencil. It is the DNA code...
There was, however, a mysterious glitch. While Voyager 2 was hidden behind Saturn it developed the space-age equivalent of a crick in the neck, reducing the mobility of its cameras. But the robot had already accomplished most of its goals, and the trouble will almost certainly not prevent use of the cameras on the rest of Voyager 2's flight-past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune...
...Says Boyer: "I got hooked. There was something very beautiful about it. It explained a lot of things." After earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed in his subject that he named his Siamese cats Watson and Crick. He also became disheartened by public events-the draining agony over the war in Viet Nam, assassinations, racial unrest. "I thought our political system was falling apart. I was ready to go somewhere else and live...