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Nature 421, 15-18 (2 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421015a

1903 and all that

J. L. Heilbron1 & W. F. Bynum2

  1. J. L. Heilbron is at Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB, UK.
  2. W. F. Bynum is at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD, UK.
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Honours go to the first powered flight and the DNA double helix.

"If DNA was so important, why weren't you working on it?" Mrs Linus Pauling asked her husband sometime after the revolution.