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Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. Crick told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.
MeatyBoyJr
sauce?
HousecatWizard
Good thing he wasn't looking to be cleared as top secret or anything.
Grrrah
Legallize LSD! FOR SCIENCE!
Kithien
Watson and Crick didn't "discover" DNA. They read Rosalind Franklin's research paper, then published a one-page summary of her work.
InhibitedCurve
My understanding is that the structure of DNA was fairly well known and they just formalized how it is put together and got published.
DocKrieger
Not true either. True they didn't credit Franklin as they should have, but it was a collaboration of many. Like any paper.
fireflowerfire
It's not an accident that female scientists went "uncredited" for their discoveries, it's a historical pattern of sexist discrimination.
DocKrieger
Oh, The "any paper" was referring to the fact that many people gave Watson and Crick info, regardless of source.