In article <35e48d82.1121898 at news.concentric.net>,
mike.conrad at nospam.usa.net wrote:
> In November, Yale University Press will publish
> "Medicine's Ten Greatest Discoveries", as written by
> Gerald W. Friedland and Meyer Friedman.
> 1950-53 - Maurice Wilkins did the pio-
> neering work of isolating a single fiber of
> DNA and examining it, which James Wat-
> son and Francis Crick used to develop
> their own double helix model of DNA, the
> heredity-bearing molecule. Wilkins
> shared the Nobel Prize with them for the
> discovery, which opened the door to ge-
> netics research in 1962.
Unless you, like the Nobel prize commitee, have problems with
including dead people (!) I would hope that you'll add Rosalind
Franklin to this group. Her contribution is generally considered
essential to the eventual generation of the model.
> All great men, to be sure, but my own vote goes to Jenner for his
> courage...
I don't remember reading that he tested the vaccine on himself...
Bernard
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Bernard P. Murray, PhD
Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA
