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This Day In History - February 28, 1953
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Francis CrickFebruary 28, 1953

Francis Crick first conceived of the double-helix shape of DNA while under the influence of LSD.

Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist, best known for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. This accomplishment became a cornerstone of genetics and was widely regarded as one of the most important discoveries of 20th-century biology.

The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.

He told a fellow scientist it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.

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Re: This Day In History - February 28, 1953 [Re: veggie]
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:congrats:

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Re: This Day In History - February 28, 1953 [Re: T-Rex]
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Well, actually Rosalind Franklin already knew of the helix shape of DNA before Crick took the credit, but still another hip hip hooray for LSD.

:bow2:

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Re: This Day In History - February 28, 1953 [Re: D.M.T]
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LSD :thumbup:I wish there were more people like him.


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Re: This Day In History - February 28, 1953 [Re: dstark]
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this day in history i was also born

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Re: This Day In History - February 28, 1953 [Re: Dutch-Master2890]
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The shamans conceived of the double helix, the "cosmic serpents" as Jeremy Narby might say, thousands of years ago :lol:

Leave it to the egocentric white man on acid to claim credit for the discovery of the universe.


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