Professor Francis Crick dies in San Diego, US

[Gus Nukem]

Francis Crick who, along with James Watson, identified DNA as the human genetic material "died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, US, where he had been battling colon cancer."

This discovery was made by four(4) scientists: Reed, Storm, .....
Watson, Crick and two other fellows who NEVER receive their due credit  ; if I recall correctly nor did they receive the Nobel prize. Perhaps they were working independently in two pairs. I 'd like your insight on that.

Science Fiction, Science Fiction Films, sci-fi b-movies, bad sci-fi films have all been more or less influenced by the work of the above. FACT.

Link from BBC world news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3937475.stm

PS It's interesting what Alan Moore had to say about the man in the performance/comic book/audio cd 'Snakes and Ladders'

[Gus Nukem]

Sorry for the appalling falsehoods of my above post ....

"in 1944 Avery, MacCleod and McCarthy repeated Griffith's experiments (1928) in vitro. The researchers divided the components of the dead smooth bacteria (colonies' )in carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, RNA, DNA, etc and checked which of them had the ability to transform (rough/non pathogen colony into smooth/pathogen).
They realised that the component that transformed rough bacteria into smooth was DNA. At that era many biochemical data indicated that DNA is the genetic material."

"The final confirmation that DNA is the genetic material came in 1952 by the classic experiments of Hershey and Chase who studied the life cycle of bacteriophage T-2."

"The discovery of the double helix of DNA is the most important biological discovery of the 20th century. It happened in 1953 and was the result of research of two scientific teams; those of Maurice Wilkins & Rosalind Franklin and Watson & Crick. Based on the sum of both teams results, Watson & Crick suggested the double helix model for the DNA, which refers to the structure of DNA in space (3-D). According to this model ...."

   excerpts from my high school Biology textbook



James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work in 1962.
Rosalind Franklin died in 1958.

Also see:  
www.dna50.org.uk

[Gus Nukem]

or is it: See also ?

[Yaddo42]

Maybe we can clone him, or freeze him like Ted Williams until we can bring him back.