FIRST - Announcement of the Secret of Life
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The plaque on the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England where Crick and Watson first announced their discovery of the DNA Double Helix on Feb. 28, 1953
Waymark Code: WMCFJ
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/13/2006
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As a scientist I can safely testify that some of my best ideas came to me over a beer in a pub but they never merited a plaque. So I found this plaque of particular interest, on the Eagle pub just around the corner from the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, UK.
History recalls that on Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and 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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