Spirals beget spirals
Today boingboing posted a link to BBC story about a newly published online archive of the papers of pioneering biochemist Francis Crick. Crick and his partner James Watson developed the double-helix model of the DNA molecule. Among Crick's papers is this 1953 sketch, which bears a passing resemblance to the drawings of Robert Smithson:
Link to Crick papers
Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work concerning DNA and its role in cellular reproduction.
There's a nerve-wracking game on the Nobel website that teaches you a thing or two about DNA. There's another, much more sedate game relating to the subject of chirality, a geometric property of spirals and helices.
DNA game
Chirality game
While it's unlikely to net her a Nobel prize, molecular biologist and knitter June Oshiro's DNA scarf pattern is a very nice illustration of chirality.
DNA cable scarf pattern
Link to Crick papers
Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work concerning DNA and its role in cellular reproduction.
There's a nerve-wracking game on the Nobel website that teaches you a thing or two about DNA. There's another, much more sedate game relating to the subject of chirality, a geometric property of spirals and helices.
DNA game
Chirality game
While it's unlikely to net her a Nobel prize, molecular biologist and knitter June Oshiro's DNA scarf pattern is a very nice illustration of chirality.
DNA cable scarf pattern
posted by Mimi at 4:04 PM
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