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James Watson remembers cringing when his colleague Francis Crick announced to regulars at the Eagle, a pub in Cambridge, England, that they had discovered "the secret of life." True, the onetime ornithologist and the former physicist had created a plausible model for the structure of DNA that morning. If they were right, biologists would finally understand how parents pass characteristics on to their children--not only hair and eye color but every aspect of how the human body is built and how it operates. Watson, at left in photo, and Crick would have solved the mysteries of heredity...
...would probably join in the spirit of global unity.) “Having to be 21 to drink is really annoying,” laments Bonnie M. Y. Poon ’04. “Back at high school in Hong Kong I used to go to the pub with my teachers all the time.” Yet in spite of almost all being of age, only Palmer-Amaning helped himself to a Heineken care of FM’s expense account. Five of the others, ordering over the fortuitous din of Kim Wilder’s Kids...
...chat with TIME. "Its glory was reflected on Francis and me," and the two scientists have spent their lives since then trying to live up to its standards. They marveled that something so vital could be so simple and such a surprise. When they toasted their discovery in a pub one February night 50 years ago, Watson and Crick had no idea that not only biology but also the drugs we take and the machines we build, the food we eat and the choices we face when we decide to have a baby would be changed forever by what they...
...Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and announced that he and James Watson had "found the secret of life." At least that's what Watson remembers; Crick's memory is different. The exact words don't matter that much because the fact is, they had done it. Earlier that day, the two scientists had pieced together the correct solution to a problem that researchers around the world were racing to solve. They had built a model of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that showed by its very structure how DNA could be everything they fiercely believed...