james-watson

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9cce14b	"You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after , , , , , and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than	aristotle charles-darwin crick darwin einstein francis-crick intellect isaac-newton james-d-watson james-watson knowledge max-planck newton planck polymath science understanding watson	Richard Dawkins
a08d000	"It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry--which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books--that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. As far as I am aware the presently accepted set of twenty amino acids was first drawn up by	gamow generalizations george-gamow james-d-watson james-watson nature nobel-laureate science striking watson	Francis Crick
96467b4	"I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by	discovery discovery-of-dna dna francis-crick genetics james-watson nobel-laureate science watson-and-crick	Linus Pauling
bd0fe4a	So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder--the famed double helix.	double-helix francis-crick james-watson linus-pauling molecular-structure nucleic-acids	Sam Kean

9cce14b

"You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after , , , , , and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than

aristotle charles-darwin crick darwin einstein francis-crick intellect isaac-newton james-d-watson james-watson knowledge max-planck newton planck polymath science understanding watson

Richard Dawkins

a08d000

"It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry--which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books--that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. As far as I am aware the presently accepted set of twenty amino acids was first drawn up by

gamow generalizations george-gamow james-d-watson james-watson nature nobel-laureate science striking watson

Francis Crick

96467b4

"I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by

discovery discovery-of-dna dna francis-crick genetics james-watson nobel-laureate science watson-and-crick

Linus Pauling

bd0fe4a

So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn't touch. This gave them a sort of twisted ladder--the famed double helix.

double-helix francis-crick james-watson linus-pauling molecular-structure nucleic-acids

Sam Kean