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The man who almost discovered the double helix

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The Struggle to Establish a New Institute of Molecular Biology

Florence Bell left the lab, and that's a blow to Asprey. He also lost his dream of establishing this new institute of molecular biology. The University of Leeds wouldn't even actually allow him to call it molecular biology. There were some buys and sign academic politics here.

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