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By Victor K. McElheny. 365 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Perseus, 2003. $27.50. ISBN 0-7382-0341-6.

Fifty years ago, a young South African student who was destined to win the Nobel prize made the short pilgrimage from Oxford to Cambridge to pay his respects to a chemical model on display in Room 103 of the Cavendish Laboratory. It was, Sydney Brenner reflected later, quite simply the most exciting day of his life.

Working from x-ray crystal photographs taken by others and outdated chemistry textbooks, the two obsessed model builders, Francis Crick and James D. Watson (Figure), had deduced the molecular architecture of DNA, the hereditary material, and in so doing secured their place among . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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