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Just as Watson and Crick were preparing their paper to Nature a representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, Gerald Roland Pomerat, visited the laboratory. He wrote this memo describing the “great air of excitement” at the Cavendish Laboratory in April 1953.

Credit: Rockefeller Archive Center

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