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DNA Code Cracked, Watson and Crick > 
James Watson & Francis Crick - It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student - along with some unwitting help from a competitor - to crack the secret of life. On Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of life." Actually, they had. That morning, Watson and Crick had figured out the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. And that structure — a "double helix" that can "unzip" to make copies of itself — confirmed suspicions that DNA carries life's hereditary information.
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Julien De La Mettrie, Man a Machine
Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, French physician, atheist, mechanist and materialist; an infamous specimen of the Enlightenment. La Mettrie's Man a Machine (L'Homme Machine,... |
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Charles Darwin, Evolution Theory - 1859
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, thro... |
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Gregor Mendel, Father of Genetics
Gregor Johann Mendel was a Austrian priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel show... |
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The Nobel Prize
A private institution established in 1900 based on the will of Alfred Nobel. The Foundation manages the assets made available through the will f... |
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Francis Crick, Cracked DNA Code
English physicist who worked on radar and magnetic mine development during World War II. After the war, with James Watson he pondered Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin's X-r... |
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Francis Crick, Video Interview 1993
Francis Crick was filmed by Christopher Sykes for the BBC in 1993. Francis Crick has received many awards and honours, including he Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiolog... |
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James Watson, Cracked DNA Code
James Dewey Watson, one of the most important researchers in the field of genetics, was born on April 6, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. Being a very good student, he enrol... |
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