![]() ![]() There he meets Francis Crick, and the two begin talking about genes. Having no interest in this, he ends up at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. Watson was a newly minted PhD student when he was sent to Copenhagen to learn chemistry. In any event, this account represents the way I saw things then, in 1951-1953: the ideas, the people, and myself. Thus many of the comments may seem one-sided and unfair, but this is often the case in the incomplete and hurried way in which human beings frequently decide to like or dislike a new idea or acquaintance. Although the latter approach might be more objective, it would fail to convey the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. ![]() ![]() I have attempted to re-create my first impressions of the relevant events and personalities rather than present an assessment which takes into account the many facts I have learned since the structure was found. This memoir is Watson's account of his life and work in 1951-53. Nine years later they would be awarded the Nobel Prize, along with Maurice Wilkins. Watson was 24 years old when he and Francis Crick published their paper announcing the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953. ![]()
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