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...been quarter of a century since Watson and his colleague, Francis Crick, first published the results of their research into the molecular structure of DNA, but his name remains permanently associated with the mysteries of genetic replication. His research earned him a Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1962, while he was still in his 30s, and the book we wrote with Crick--The Double Helix, the story of their joint research in molecular biology--became a best-seller. His notoriety has followed him from his post at Harvard as Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences--a chair from...
...ascended and dancers rose on tiptoe, balloons bobbed and floated while dancers circled and swayed. . . But after a while, the balloons stole the show, careening with the air going out like antic rockets, bumbling like a small child's blown soap bubbles, or clustered in dancers' hands like enormous molecular models. I don't recall what in particular the dancers looked like--their motions were minimal and forgettable. If the piece were intended to explore the commonality of motion between unlike objects, it ended by suggesting that balloons are more interesting dancers than people...
...inducing an egg fertilized with an implanted body cell nucleus to develop--could not yet be overcome. They say that since a frog was successfully cloned in the early '60s, researchers have been unable to clone a mouse, let alone a man. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical School, voices a common objection to Rorvik's claim: "I'm sort of surprise that the barriers could have been overcome so quickly and without hearing about...
...stage to "a continuum, an Einsteinian field in which the dancers relate not to fixed points...but to one another," and most Cunningham dances can be viewed to almost equal advantage from any angle. There is no hierarchy of dancers, either: they interact, in critic McDonagh's phrase, with "molecular individuality." As with Cunningham's approach to decor and music, this too is essentially a respect for the integrity of individual elements rather than a surrender to anarchy. Carolyn Brown, long an outstanding Cunningham dancer, points out that "the dancers are treated more as puzzles than works...
...prove their point they enlisted 58 scientists to discuss what was unknown in their fields. The co-editors quickly discovered that "the more eminent they were, the more ready to run to us with their ignorance." Some of the contributors are indeed eminent: Molecular Biologists Francis Crick and Sir John Kendrew. Chemist Linus Pauling (all Nobel laureates), Anthropologist Donald Johanson, Astronomers Sir Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, Physicist John Wheeler. The conundrums they pose are also notable. How did the universe come into being? Why do we sleep? How are galaxies formed? What is consciousness? Why does a species become...