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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

25 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

25 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

25 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