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On Friday, Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle Pub
in Cambridge, England, and announced that he and his colleague, James
Watson, had figured out the double-helical structure of the deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA) molecule, a discovery that was “as revolutionary for biology
as the cracking of the atom was for physics,” proclaimed Indiana
Alumni magazine in its November 1962 cover story about Watson,
who, along with Crick and Maurice Wilkins, received the 1962 Nobel
Prize in the category of medicine or physiology. Watson was the first
IU graduate (Ph.D. in zoology 1950; honorary doctorate 1963) to receive
the Nobel Prize, although two who held honorary IU degrees preceded
him as Nobel laureates, Harold Urey and W.M. Stanley. Watson and Crick’s
paper on DNA appeared in the April 25, 1953 issue of Nature
magazine.
It’s downloadable:
Read
more about Watson at IU at this 1999 HP archival site:
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