Quantum of Science

Danas je "rođendan" DNK. Na današnji dan, objavljen je rad o strukturi DNK.  Jednog lijepog dana, krajem zime 1953., dvojica mladih ljudi su u pubu „The Eagle“, Cambridge, prekinuli bezbrižni mir ambijenta. Naime, kako ni jedan ni drugi nisu patili od hronične bolesti zvane „lažna skromnost“, usred paba su rekli naglas „Otkrili smo tajnu života!“. Bili su to Francis Crick, engleski molekularni biolog, i James D. Watson, američki biolog, a ova priča je najčešća varijanta legende o objavi okrića strukture DNK.   Ta, gotovo montipajtonovska izjava, se odnosila na njihovo viđenje strukture jedne ogromne molekule, smještene u stanicama, koja je dugo bila glavna misterija u znanosti o životu. Njihovo viđenje modela strukture dezoksiribonukleinske kiseline, u narodu poznate kao DNK, je do danas ostao opšteprihvaćeni model. Rad je objavljen 25.aprila 1953. u časopisu „ Nature “, pod nazivom „ A structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid “. Rad je bio napisan minimalističk...

I think I can safely say that I am “British-inclined”. Maybe a lot of you will hold this against me, but I am not much of a local-patriot. As I child, I was practically in love with ancient Greece, myths, stories, epics and mostly through drawings by a British neoclassicist John Flaxman (York, 1755- London, 1826) gathered in a collection of retold ancient Greek epics and myths prepared by Gustav Schwab (Stuttgart, 1792 - Stuttgart, 1850),  German writer and publisher. I fell in love with literature and fine arts through Flaxman's drawings and Schwab's Sagen des klassischen Altertums, however, almost at the same time I discovered The Beatles (through my mother), David Bowie (through my mother and the movie Labyrinth) and Queen (through MTV). The Rolling Stones and I have met some time later. John Flaxman, "Penelope Surprised by the Suitors", 1805. Once you discover the British rock scene, you almost instantly find yourself in a historical ...