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18 Oct 2023: Meet our Nobel Laureates 121 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to members of the University of Cambridge for significant advances. These include: the discovery of

14 Mar 2024: The trail will take you past Colleges and Departments as well as a trip past The Eagle pub where Francis Crick and James Watson announced they had "discovered the secret of

9 Jan 2013: 1953. Francis Crick and James Watson discover the structure of DNA, unlocking the secret of how coded information is contained in living cells and passed from one generation to the next - ... establishments. Crick and Watson share the Nobel Prize for

23 Jun 2024: 29 Jul 2016. Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in.

9 Dec 2005: The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will mark the achievements of the great Scottish chemist Lord Todd, whose work made the DNA breakthrough of Francis Crick and James Watson possible, by ... This work opened the way for Watson and Crick’s discovery

1 Mar 2023: It was here on the 28. th. February 1963, that Francis Crick and James Watson first announced they had “discovered the secret of life” – DNA. ... new science of human genetics, taking forward the work of Crick and Watson.

29 Jul 2016: From Darwin’s provisional hypothesis of pangenesis to William Bateson’s work on animal variation, right the way through to Crick, Watson and Franklin, Cambridge has been at the forefront of

4 Mar 2010: 1953 Francis Crick andJames Watson discover thestructure of DNA, unlockingthe secret of how codedinformation is contained inliving cells and passed fromone generation to the next.Their discovery opens the doorto the

23 Jun 2024: 29 Jul 2016. Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in.

30 Sep 2022: Francis Crick (Gonville and Caius College and Churchill College) and James Watson (Clare College).

13 Jan 2003: 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the proposals, by James Watson and Francis Crick, of the double helical structure of DNA and this exhibition explores visual representations of the double helix. ... The exhibition includes a full-scale replica of the

23 Jun 2024: 29 Jul 2016. Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in.

25 Apr 2003: One of the key exhibits in the exhibition is a full-scale replica of the model built by Watson and Crick in 1953. ... This historical event put the Greene King pub, a regular watering hole for Crick and Watson, on the map.

28 Feb 2023: From 'Cambridge 800: An Informal Panorama' by Quentin Blake. Francis Crick’s announcement to patrons of The Eagle pub that he and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life", the ... A significant point is that Watson and Crick were both theorists,

4 Jan 2011: to work, and Newton, Darwin, Crick and Watson would doubtless be astounded by the high-specification laboratories available to today’s researchers in the physical and biological sciences.

10 Dec 2001: the discovery of vitamins; Crick and Watson, joint-winners of the Physiology prize in 1962 for their discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA; and Frederick Sanger who won the

14 Oct 2019: th. century – the discovery of the structure of DNA. Her work was critical to James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of the double helix – and their subsequent Nobel Prize win

20 Mar 2009: There is an intellectual challenge implicit in the contrast for instance between a Malanggan mortuary effigy and Watson and Crick’s structure of DNA.

29 Jul 2004: Chicago-born James Watson, who had just arrived at the Cavendish, was particularly interested in the structure of nucleic acids and proteins; Crick believed that DNA was the means by which ... We are grateful that Cambridge provided the intellectual

3 Aug 2020: Shankar Balasubramanian. In 1953, Cambridge researchers Francis Crick and James Watson co-authored a study published in the journal Nature which showed that DNA in our cells has an intertwined, ‘double

25 Apr 2005: Watson and Crick's famous discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953.

14 May 2020: It’s a historic landmark where Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA.

8 Feb 2002: In the same year four of this group won Nobel Prizes - Perutz and Kendrew were awarded the Chemistry prize for their structural analyses of haemoglobin and myoglobin and Francis Crick and ... James Watson (with Maurice Wilkins) won the Medicine prize for

23 Dec 2003: Scientists from across the world came to Cambridge to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Crick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA.

16 May 2012: Professor Shankar Balasubramanian. When Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, they declared they had “found the secret of life”.

2 Nov 2009: Even Watson and Crick’s famous celebratory pint at The Eagle pub following their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA gets a retelling, with Watson commenting on what hard ... work it was, only for Crick to respond that it was “elementary,

31 Jan 2013: Shankar Balasubramanian. In 1953, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a paper describing the interweaving ‘double helix’ DNA structure – the chemical code for all life.

6 Mar 2009: Juxtaposing the ancient and the modern, the beautiful and the scientific, a cast of Aphrodite stands close to a replica of Crick and Watson’s model of the double helix.

12 Sep 2008: disease. Since the first prize was awarded in 1946, 75 recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, including many Cambridge scientists such as Watson and Crick, Hans Krebs, and Frederick

23 Feb 2017: Much of the Royce Equipment will be housed within the Maxwell Centre, in the Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics), which is famous for the discovery of the structure of DNA (Crick ... and Watson), but brings together researchers from Engineering,

29 Sep 2011: The BSS team helped the teenagers extract DNA from strawberries, a reminder that the DNA code was unravelled at the Cavendish Laboratory by two Cambridge physicists, Watson and Crick.

15 Nov 2012: Later he gave free rein to Francis Crick and James Watson’s work on DNA. ... While at the RI, Bragg had the satisfaction of hearing in 1962 of the award of Nobel prizes to Perutz, Kendrew, Crick and Watson.

14 Jan 2010: Cambridge academics Sir Ronald Fisher and JBS Haldane, together with Sewall Wright, produced ground-breaking work in population genetics in the early 1900s, and James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the

24 Feb 2017: helix' structure by Francis Crick and James Watson.

2 Oct 2017: Ramanujan and Cartwright in mathematics; Babbage, Turing and Wilkes in computing; Darwin, Watson-Crick-Franklin, Hodgkin and Sanger in biology; Trevelyan, Elton and Judt in history.

30 May 2023: Ramanujan and Cartwright in mathematics; Babbage, Turing and Wilkes in computing; Darwin, Watson-Crick-Franklin, Hodgkin and Sanger in biology; Trevelyan, Elton and Judt in history.

31 May 2023: The roll call of brilliance was known to me as it is known across the planet: Newton and Darwin, Crick and Watson, Wordsworth and Coleridge, and their heirs and successors in

31 May 2023: This is what Francis Crick and James Watson did in Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratories in 1952: their discovery of the structure of DNA has had an effect on all our lives

28 Sep 2009: Rosalind Franklin, the often forgotten Cambridge scholar whose X-Ray diffraction images proved vital to the discovery of DNA, deservedly receives equal billing alongside Francis Watson and James Crick.

31 May 2023: Let me cite only 3 of the most notable ones:. In 1953, Cambridge scientists James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA.

31 May 2002: Using experimental data assembled by Rosalind Franklin, another former member of the University, Crick and Watson for the first time revealed the double helix structure of DNA. ... 1962. Crick and Watson share the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine

5 Jan 2009: for instancebetween a Malanggan mortuary effigy and Watson and Crick’s structureof DNA.

8 May 2012: University of Cambridge research

12 May 2010: a fine edifice in which towork, and Newton, Darwin, Crick and Watson would doubtless be astounded by thehigh-specification laboratories available to today’s researchers in the physical andbiological sciences.

25 Nov 2015: Francis Crick and James Watson.

20 Jul 2006: Tragically, Franklin died from cancer aged 37. The 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was subsequently awarded to Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson for their work on DNA.

12 Sep 2008: disease. Since the first prize was awarded in 1946, 75 recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, including many Cambridge scientists such as Watson and Crick, Hans Krebs, and Frederick