26 THE STUFF OF LIFE
of sometal to cellular activity, but as allace, King, and Sanders point out in Biology: t rarest text), oday al processes suc and memory. e kno kno time you could pluck one from your body and take it audy o many of Morgan’s peers as t scientists today migure a strayt and examine it under a microscope.
ainly true someted ingcell replication. Finally, in 1944, after fifteen years of effort, a team at titute in Mantan, led by a brilliant but diffident Canadian named Osricky experiment in eria ly infectious by crossing it DNA certainly ive agent in y. trian-born bioc Ered quite seriously t Avery’s discovery wo Nobel Prizes.
Unfortunately, Avery itute, a strong-ein ent named Alfred Mirsky, Avery’s ies at titute in Stock to give Avery a Nobel Prize. Avery by time y-six years old and tired. Unable to deal ress and controversy, ion and never near a lab again. But ots elseructure of DNA.
ting person in t certainly ec, to crack tructure of DNA.
Pauling ermining tecture of molecules and allograpec o peering into t of DNA. In an exceedingly distinguis tructureriple a double one, and never quite got on t track. Instead, victory fellto an unlikely quartet of scientists in England eam, often onspeaking terms, and part novices in the field.
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