Acharya Prashant in Britain #11

Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant in Britain #10   https://youtube.com/shorts/0NgVqB_agd8?feature=share  The scientific community's consensus on the discovery of DNA is nuanced:  Structure of DNA (the double helix, 1953) The credit is broadly shared among four people:  James Watson & Francis Crick - proposed the double helix model, published in Nature, and received the 1962 Nobel Prize  Rosalind Franklin - her X-ray crystallography image ("Photo 51") was pivotal evidence that Watson and Crick used, reportedly without her knowledge or full consent. The scientific community has increasingly recognized that she was inadequately credited during her lifetime, partly due to gender bias of the era. She died in 1958 and Nobel Prizes aren't awarded posthumously.  Maurice Wilkins - also did X-ray work and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Watson and Crick  DNA as the carrier of genetic information (1944)  Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty - demonstrated that DNA (not protein) carries hereditary information, a foundational discovery predating the double helix  DNA's existence as a molecule (1869)  Friedrich Miescher - first isolated DNA (which he called "nuclein") from cell nuclei  When people say "discovered DNA" they almost always mean the double helix structure, because that's the breakthrough that changed biology forever. "Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin are credited with discovering the structure of DNA, though Miescher first identified DNA as a substance decades earlier."  Acharya Prashant in UK  See glimpses from three wonderful sessions   📍 Cambridge India Business Dialogue ✅ 🗓️ 30 May 2026 | 1:30 PM BST 📌 Cambridge Union  📍 London Public Session ✅ 🗓️ 31 May 2026 | 5:00 PM BST 📌 Middlesex University  📍 NISAU – UK India Leadership Conclave ✅ 🗓️ 1 June 2026 | 6:30 PM BST  📌 Central London  Upcoming Sessions:  📍 INSA UK Conclave 🗓️ 12 June 2026 | 2:00 PM BST 📌 House of Lords, UK Parliament  📍 London Climate Action Week 🗓️ 25 June 2026 | 6:00 PM BST 📌 London  📍 London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) 🗓️ 26 June 2026 | 6:30 PM BST 📌 Hong Kong Theatre, LSE  📍 King's College London 🗓️ 29 June 2026 | 6:30 PM BST 📌 King's College  📍 Watkins Books 🗓️ 30 June 2026 | 5:00 PM BST 📌 London  And more...  #AcharyaPrashant #Oxford #Cambridge #London #KingsCollegeLondon #uk #education #dna #science #discovery

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00:00DNA. You have heard the word. The discovery that gave us cancer treatments. The COVID vaccine. DNA forensic tests.

00:07But do you know where it was discovered? 1953, Cambridge, England.

00:12Two scientists finally understood what DNA looks like. How it works. How your body knows how to build you and

00:18not someone else.

00:19Francis Crick was so excited he ran to the famous Eagle Bar next door and announced,

00:23We have discovered the secret of life.

00:292026. Acharya Prashant is at that same Eagle Bar while on his visit to Cambridge University for a historic talk.

00:58It's such an interesting combination. A breakthrough scientific discovery being announced in a veteran bar.

01:15Should we go to the main entrance?

01:18Main entrance? Main entrance.

01:20Main entrance?

01:21Main entrance.

01:21Yeah, yeah.

01:22Let's go to the main entrance.

01:24Yeah.

01:26That will get the best feeling.

01:29Yeah, let's go.

01:30The DNA?

01:32We are his.

01:34Yeah?

01:34Let's sit down.

01:35Oh, okay.

01:51So, they are marketing this so much.

01:54I always forget that thing.

01:56Number 17.

02:03Yeah.

02:04Even here it's like Watson and Creek.

02:19So, this is the story behind it.

02:26This is the table.

02:30Do you want to get a picture?

02:31It's alright.

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