The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
So that`s when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that`s when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.
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There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
