A natural interest

As a teenager reading Scientific American was kin to a science comic book.

While everything was understood, little was retained as an entertaining pass time.  With a lifetime of experience and no degreed credentials I remained a technician in a number of fields.

Watson, the inevitable protagonist of The Double Helix, managed to get himself invited to a Franklin lecture in London and saw at once that her x-ray crystallography work held the key to the 

 mystery of DNA 

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 theguardian.com article by Robert McCrum  Mon 9 May ‘16 00.45 EDT