PROFESSOR STEPHEN CLARK WRITES:

Remarkable progress in biology. So much has followed the revelation achieved by Watson and Crick.

My last night in Cambridge, I spent the early evening drinking a couple pints in The Eagle. The Eagle is the pub in which Watson and Crick hung out after hours from their work in nearby Cavendish Laboratory and where they made the announcement, commemorated by plaques within and without, of their discovery of the structure of DNA. So I’m sitting alone at a table, soaking in the ambiance and my pint, and overhear an animated discussion of genetics at the next table. I look over and am surprised…Well, see for yourself. A rather nice end to my visit here.

Cheers,

Stephen

P.S. Confirmation came when I decided that this called for a second pint . While at the bar refilling, the young man who you cannot see in the picture sent blocked as he is by the two gents in the right foreground stood next to me and asked the pint puller if Watson got free drinks. I chuckled at that. We spoke and I learned that Watson had given a talk and was spending time with hosts in his old haunt.

P.P.S Taken without flash using a Canon S90.