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Moments of Genius

Series 2

Episode 2: Sir Martin Evans

Duration: 4 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Nobel laureate Professor Sir Martin Evans describes the moment scientists worked out how the DNA code was read, in a chaotic lab in the attic of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. A moment of genius that launched modern biology. Show less

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