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...that comets had a probable role in the origin of life by bringing with them the chemical precursors of life, in the form of amino acids and other molecules. However, this theory was suggested by me almost 25 years ago, and not as you say by the scientists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel. Joan Oró, Professor Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences University of Houston Houston...
DIED. CHARLIE MUSE, 87, executive for baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates who developed the modern batting helmet; in Sun City Center, Fla. At the behest of Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, he (along with inventor Ralph Davia and designer Ed Crick) came up with a plastic model to protect the batter's head. Despite initial image concerns of players, the helmets were soon adopted by the Pirates and other major league clubs...
...through a series of rays, it will produce a recognizable pattern of small dots - it's a bit like seeing the bear in the pattern of stars that make up Ursa Major. The crystallography technique was once used by legendary dna discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick. As Jhoti notes, "it took Watson and Crick over a decade just to image one dna molecule." Astex has sped up the process with a series of computer algorithms and hardware processes...
...British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double-helix structure of DNA; in London. With his colleague (and frequent adversary) Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double-spiral structure. Watson, Crick and Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine...
...envisioned a world where there wouldn’t be centralized servers and that was just a few years ago,” Crick said...