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The new Nobel Laureates are Francis Harry Compton Crick, 46, of Britain's Cambridge University; Chicago-born James Dewey Watson, 34, who worked with Crick and is now a professor of biology at Harvard; and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, 46, deputy director of the biophysics laboratory at King'...
Until they won their joint award, just about the only thing the three researchers had in common was an interest in the molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the kind of nucleic acid that controls the reproduction of most living cells. California's famed chemist, Nobelman Linus Pauling, had suggested...
Magpie's Hut. Crick and Watson did their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model...
The basic tool used by both groups was X-ray diffraction, which produces enigmatic pictures than can be interpreted to show the structure of invisible molecules. Wilkins made the pictures of DNA himself; Watson and Crick interpreted X-ray pictures made by others, some by Wilkins. Both groups came to...
For all their football songs, for all their fiinesse at the academic game, four years at Harvard from 1908 to 1918 were a serious business. No undergraduate could fail to be affected by the changes of a thoughtful, farsighted president; none could fail to realize that "the noblest institution in...