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Alec Jeffreys

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2007-12-09

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2007-12-09

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1. “I mean, it really was a Eureka moment. I'd even tell you when it was. It was five past nine on Monday morning, the tenth of september nineteen eighty four. That was a moment that changed my life. Let me just describe what we're doing in the laboratory. We had this piece of x-ray film detecting these radioactive fragments of DNA. We'd left it down, exposing to x-ray film over the weekend. So I came in on the Monday morning inside the dark room, pulling this piece of film out of the developing tank, put the light on. I thought, whoa, what have we got here?”

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