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The Cavendish Laboratory and structural biology

27 Mar 2003

When James Watson and Francis Crick published the structure of DNA 50 years ago next month, it revealed the leading role played by the Cavendish Laboratory in structural biology. But why was this discovery made in a physics lab in Britain?

Nobel laureates 1962
ON 25 April 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick, working in a small Medical Research Council unit in

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