Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries at the Cavendish Laboratory: DNA Double Helix

Eunkyoung LEE
2012 Physics and High Technology  
Crick were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 50 years ago for the discovery of the DNA double helix. That finding is well known to have been important to the development of molecular biology. However, it's not widely appreciated that Crick and another co-recipient, M. Wilkins, were physicists and that the research was carried out at one of the leading phys-
doi:10.3938/phit.21.026 fatcat:ogph5yoeubctzp4j6eevlbvj3q