Yesterday, Feb. 28, was the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, by scientists James Watson and Francis Crick.
U-M medical historian Howard Markel, M.D., looks back on that momentous announcement – made at first in a British pub, in a new column available at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/02/the-pub-where-the-secret-of-life-was-first-announced.html
It’s the latest in his series of columns for the PBS Newshour tracing the history of important milestones in medical and scientific history.
