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Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins win Nobel Prize...
...Cavendish lab, Crick has no reason for modesty. In the years since their discovery of the double helix, Crick, unlike Watson, has continued to do significant research, mostly by pondering big--and often controversial--theoretical questions rather than by toiling in the lab. Says his longtime colleague and fellow Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner: "He's the only molecular biologist I know who has managed to make a living as a theoretician...
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...
...1960s. People waited for the explanation of how DNA duplicated itself and how its code was turned into proteins before they fully accepted our structure. They didn't understand that it was simply too good not to be true. That's one reason we didn't get the Nobel for nine years...
Last spring, the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College performed in a ceremony to honor South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his struggle against apartheid...