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According to Sayre, Watson took Franklin's experimental results and then in 1968, several years after Franklin's death, wrote "The Double Helix" which called upon "every known prejudice against intellectual women" to degrade Franklin and justify the theft...
...large complex organic molecule. A gene consists of two sections of DNA curled around each other in a double helix...
...bonds, is famous as a peace activist and, more recently, for promoting vitamin C as a cure for the common cold. James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of life's master molecule DNA became a public figure only after the publication of his book The Double Helix, a frank and often unflattering view of how scientists choose and achieve their goals...
...already begun recruiting among former U.S. military veterans the 1,000 men it will need to do the three-year job in King Faisal's oil-rich desert nation. The suspicious immediately dubbed the task force "mercenaries" and wondered if Vinnell was a CIA front, and double-helix theories multiplied about what might be the real plot afoot...
...message itself was succinct: a three-minute transmission in mathematical code describing the make-up of the solar system, the inhabitants of earth, the present world population and the double helix of the heredity molecule DNA. The signal was transmitted last week by a team of U.S. scientists from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a vast antenna 1,000 ft. in diameter lining a natural bowl formed by hills. The target was Messier 13, a cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets...