Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Cavendish Laboratory

  • Book review: A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew

    Arpan K. BanerjeeSolihull, United Kingdom Remarkable scientific advances in the twentieth century were also crucial for the field of medicine. In the new field of molecular biology, for example, scientists applied the principles of physics and chemistry to elucidate the structure of important proteins and molecules in the human body. John Kendrew was one of…

  • The first description of DNA: A six million dollar letter from Francis to Michael Crick

    Marshall A. Lichtman Rochester, New York, United States In the April 25, 1953 issue of the biomedical journal Nature, three articles were published on the structural characteristics of DNA. One was a three-dimensional model of DNA constructed by James Watson and Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, who did no experiments to arrive at…