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...would have made of high-minded scientists, government officials and entrepreneurs, gathering near his beloved Cannery Row, to think about the consequences of a biological revolution. It was, of course, a revolution even he could not have anticipated. And not just because he died five years before Watson and Crick discovered DNA?s double helix (when his car was hit by a produce-laden freight train). Doc was an old-fashioned sort of biologist who combed tide pools for the invertebrates he loved - mollusks, anemones, starfish - and studied their gross features and quirky behavior (and supported himself by supplying biological...
Franklin's life was short, but its epilogue has been long. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962. (Nobels are awarded only to living scientists, and Franklin died too early to share the glory.) In an uncharacteristically heartfelt afterword to The Double Helix, Watson admits that his "initial impressions of her, both scientific and personal...were often wrong." She has been the subject of two biographies, a BBC movie and numerous articles, all aimed at giving her the credit she was denied during her lifetime. In 2000, King's College christened...
...FRANCIS CRICK SOLVE THE STRUCTURE OF DNA BEFORE ANYONE ELSE...
...Francis Crick and I brought together chemistry and biology. The next century will bring together biology and psychology. In the past, I never wanted to learn psychology because I didn't think its proponents had a solid basis for what they claimed. Now we're going to begin to understand behavior from a genetic point of view...
...observe TIME's 80th anniversary, we plan to offer some fascinating answers in a special issue the week of March 23 in which we'll profile 80 Days That Changed the World. Some had protagonists who would become famous, as in the case of James Watson and Francis Crick, who figured out the structure of DNA, an event celebrated in this issue, but we have identified some consequential days that may take you by surprise, like the Saturday in 1980 when accountant Ted Benna found an important opportunity in an obscure tax-code section called...