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Who cares about the double helix?

Nature volume 422, pages 803–804 (2003)Cite this article

Collective memory links the past to the future in science as well as history.

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I thank Soraya de Chadarevian, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Marc Geiser and Michel Morange for discussions.

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