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http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21700617-scientific-study-importance-diagrams-science-graphic-details

https://28pages.org/

The Power of the Beautiful Experiment
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/dna-power-beautiful-experiment/ highlights greater success of expt vs theory in cracking the genetic code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

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Photograph 51 is the nickname given to an X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Raymond Gosling in May 1952, working as a PhD student under the supervision of Rosalind Franklin,[1][2][3][4] at King’s College London inSir John Randall’s group. It was critical evidence[5] in identifying the structure of DNA.[6]

James Watson was shown the photo by Maurice Wilkins without Rosalind Franklin’s approval or knowledge (although by this time Gosling had returned to the supervision of Wilkins). Along with Francis Crick, Watson used characteristics and features of Photo 51 to develop the chemical model of the DNA molecule. In 1962, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Watson, Crick and Wilkins. The prize was not awarded to Franklin; she had died four years earlier, and the Nobel Prize’s rules require that it be awarded only to living persons.[7]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

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Creating the “New Man”
Both Stalinism and Nazism share an ideological vision of creating an ideal “new man”, both identified the “bourgeois” world as the old world that was obsolete, and both involved a total rejection of liberalism as well as individual rights and freedoms, in which they sought to create a new, illiberal modern society.[34][35] This vision of the New Man differed between them, the Stalinists conceived of the New Man as necessarily involving the liberation of all of humanity – a global and non-ethnic goal, while the Nazis conceived of the New Man as a master race that would organize a new racial hierarchy in Europe.[34] Both systems made heavy use of propaganda, with Stalinism attempting to reshape the new “Soviet man”.[36]
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role of Lysenko in this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nazism_and_Stalinism

particular favorite in WWII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study

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The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental
demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, andMaclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it wasproteins that served the function of carrying genetic information (with the very word protein itself coined to indicate a belief that its function was primary).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Avery