50th Anniversary of DNA's Discovery

nxg125 writes "The New York Times has a section on the 50th anniversary of Watson & Crick's discovery of DNA. Lots of good articles about the discovery, Watson & Crick themselves, and where this information will take us from here."

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fist ports?

[YOU ARE AN IDIOT!]

well???

Slashdot celebrates Negro DNA Month

[Anonymous Coward]

Sammy Davis Jr.

On November 19, 1954, the career of Sammy Davis Jr. almost came to a sudden and tragic close. While driving to Los Angeles to record the title tune of the Universal International picture "Six Bridges to Cross", Sammy was the victim of an automobile smash-up and narrowly escaped death. He was so seriously injured that his left eye had to be removed. In spite of the terrible shock, Sammy rallied and went on with his work; he even insisted that he was the "luckiest guy in the world".

Since his accident, Sammy's courageous spirit and ever-growing talent have won him increasingly enthusiastic audiences. Let's hear it for Sammy Davis Jr. !

Celebrate Negro Month 2003 with Slashdot.

Re:First...hehe sorry....

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry is right you stupid fuck.

va Linux earnings release...

[Anonymous Coward]

6.6 million in revenue, 10 million in expenses.

Who said geeks are good at math?

Re:Aren't we forgetting someone?

[panurge]

We are and we aren't. Rosalind Franklin did some very good X-ray analysis, but did not make the theoretical leap of Watson and Crick and did not share the Nobel prize. You can put forward a number of reasons for this including the MCPiggery of the scientists of the time (and, skirting around the laws of libel, in my own completely idiotic and prejudiced opinion neither Watson nor Crick had the personality traits of the Dalai Lama.) However, many scientists have combined great talents with difficult personalities (Newton being a prize example) and we shouldn't allow this to predudice us against recognising their actual achievements.

Any great discovery tends to be associated with a number of important but lesser discoveries, whether of theory or technique, and it would be nice if we could recognise those appropriately rather than have to try and link them directly with the main advance.

In two other cases of the last century, I have heard Mrs. Einstein got the money from the prize in exchange for allowing Albert all the credit, and Scientific American and other journals continue to link Jocelyn Bell Burnell's name with Geoffrey Hewish's. The mills of God grind slowly, but they tend to get there eventually.