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 Crick and Watson
Crick and Watson 1916 - 2004 and b1928
The Prizewinners
11 December 1962  BBC

Francis Crick talks to Stephen Black about

   Audiohis collaboration with James Watson  2 min 13

   Audiohow long it took to work out the molecular structure of DNA  1 min 32

   Audiothe properties of life and what a virus is  2 min 20


Double Helix Revisited
29 October 1972  Radio 3

James Watson and Francis Crick talk to Paul Vaughan about

   Audiohow they discovered DNA  2 min 3

   Audiowhether their discovery of DNA changed the direction of scientific research  0 min 38

   Audioregrets about what they did and didn't do  2 min 8


Scientifically Speaking
26 August 1974  Radio 3

Francis Crick talks to John Maddox about

   Audiohis interest in developmental biology and embryology  4 min 37


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Crick and Watson
British biophysicist and American geneticist

Francis Crick and James Watson with Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Widely regarded as one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century it has led the way to the mapping and deciphering of all the genes in the human chromosomes.


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