The Eagle is a Grade II listed public house in Cambridge, England, which opened in 1667 as a coaching inn. It is the second oldest pub in Cambridge, after the Pickerel Inn on Magdalene Street. The pub
The Bene't Street frontage looking west
Main signboard of The Eagle, as seen from the Corpus Christi College accommodation above
The RAF Bar ceiling with graffiti of Second World War airmen
Blue plaque (now replaced) on The Eagle, with Franklin's name added at the bottom
Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helic
The Eagle, Cambridge
…was still at its old site at nearby Free School Lane, the pub was a popular lunch destination for staff working there. Thus, it became the place where Francis Crick interrupted patrons' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life" after they had come up with…
Diagram that emphasises the phosphate backbone of DNA. Watson and Crick first made helical models with the phosphates at the centre of the helices.
Crick and Watson DNA model built in 1953 was reconstructed largely from its original pieces in 1973 and donated to the National Science Museum in London.
Results from an fMRI experiment in which people made a conscious decision about a visual stimulus. The small region of the brain coloured orange shows patterns of activity that correlate with the decision making process. Crick stressed the importance of finding new methods to probe human brain function.