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Roadstergal · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:37 am Post subject: RIP Francis Crick

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JRS · Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 2386 Location: USA

Not many people know that name but will always remember the DNA helix. Crick and Watson mapped the human DNA.

JRS

RedBaron86325 · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:00 am Post subject: RIP Francis Crick

If anyone has an opportunity to study at the Salk Institute, do it. They have all kinds of intern programs thoughout the year dealing with all things chemistry, biology, and molecular biology. My genetics professor cured my classroom boredom by hooking me up in their molecular biology lab for 30 days. I learned and exerienced more in that 30 days than I could have ever hoped to learn in any classroom.

board_nerd · Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 1015 Location: SE US

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Not many people know that name

Or that the Nobel Prize winning paper was only 1.5 pages. Similarly, de Broglie's thesis that described the wave-particle duality of matter was absurdly short (and almost rejected). It also won a Nobel. Big ideas often fly below the radar

TnSlim · Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Curaçao, N.A.

Everyone knows names like Einstein, Fermi, Teller & Szilard, but so few have heard of Watson & Crick, Sturtevant & Bridges, and most of all, Thomas Hunt Morgan. We stand at the dawn to the age of genetic engineering and so few have ever heard the names of the pioneers who led us here. How ironic we so revere the destroyers but the life-givers fade into obscurity.

Roadstergal · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:34 am Post subject: RIP Francis Crick

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so few have heard of Watson & Crick

And even fewer have heard of Rosalind Franklin.

TnSlim · Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Curaçao, N.A.

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And even fewer have heard of Rosalind Franklin.

Roadstergal, do you number yourself among those who think Watson & Crick never would have discovered the double helix without Rosalind’s work?

Roadstergal · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject: RIP Francis Crick

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Roadstergal, do you number yourself among those who think Watson & Crick never would have discovered the double helix without Rosalind’s work?

You can never say "never," but as things stood, I think their discovery owes a lot to her work. She was an extremely talented crystallographer, and succeeded where many had failed at the actual crystallization and analysis.

TnSlim · Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Curaçao, N.A.

I get the impression that the field was really cutthroat back then. When Bridges died, Morgan and Sturtevant burned all his papers. It can’t imagine the paranoia that would drive them to destroy something that historically significant.