(May 18, 2019 at 2:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: DNA trivia:
-The molecule was discovered in 1869 by Johann Miescher, who wasn't a biochemist.
-DNA's role in heredity was proved by Oswald Avery, who wasn't a biochemist.
-Of the four people credited with working out the shape of the molecule - Franklin, Wilkins, Watson and Crick - none were biochemists.
-Linus Pauling would have worked out the double helical shape of DNA if he hadn't got caught up in the 'red scare' in the US (Pauling WAS a biochemist).
-Wilkins, Watson and Crick shared the 1962 Noble Prize in Physiology/Medicine (Franklin didn't, having died four years earlier).
-The Nobel Prize is named for Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred Prize.
Boru
So, you're saying biochemists are all incompetent commies?
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
