Going public
Watson and Crick's discovery was made public in the prestigious journal Nature on 25 April 1953. These days, it seems like a masterpiece of understatement.
'We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.'
James Watson and Francis Crick,
Nature, 25 April 1953
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You can see Crick and Watson's famous model of DNA in the Science Museum's Making the Modern World gallery
Image: Science Museum / Science & Society Pic. Lib. |
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