Jean Balchin • Jun 28, 2017 •
This grainy, black and white photograph is quite possibly the most important photograph in human history. Photograph 51, the unimaginatively-named X-ray diffraction image of DNA was taken by Raymond Gosling in May 1952, a PhD student under the supervision of Rosalind Franklin at King’s College London. Photograph 51 triggered the development … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Feb 27, 2013 •
Yesterday I wrote about how the Crick family is to sell Francis Crick’s Nobel Prize medal. In that post I mentioned how my attention was drawn to that the family is also considering selling Crick's letter to his son Michael, then aged 12, explaining his and James Waton’s model for the structure of DNA. It … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Feb 26, 2013 •
The family of Francis Crick are to sell his Nobel Prize Medal and diploma, won for his work on the structure of DNA. [caption id="attachment_10703" align="alignleft" width="220"] (Source: wikimedia.org)[/caption] Crick’s 1962 Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine was shared with American James Watson and New Zealander* Maurice Wilkins, for their work on the structure of … Read More