The sentence "This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest" may be one of science's most famous understatements. It appeared in April 1953 in the scientific paper where James Watson and Francis Crick presented the structure of the DNA-helix, the molecule that carries genetic information from one generation to the other. Nine years later, in 1962, they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Maurice Wilkins, for solving one of the most important of all biological riddles.
Half a century later, important new implications of this contribution to science are still coming to light. James Dewey Watson Born: on 6th April 1928, Chicago, IL, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Francis Harry Compton Crick Born: 8 June 1916, Northampton, United Kingdom Died: 28 July 2004, San Diego, CA, USA Affiliation at…
