Second hearing of the talks arranged to mark the tercentenary of the Royal Society
5: Genes and Atoms by F. H. C. Crick , F.S.S. of the M.R.C. Unit for Molecular Biology.
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
X-ray crystallography is revealing the structure of genetic material. We know something of the way in which genes carry information, and replicate themselves. Amazing precision is demanded of these structures, and dramatic consequences can arise from a single defect. : second broadcast