1962: ‘What Manner of Men?’ Meeting Scientists through Television





By Tim Boon

At 21:25 on 11th December 1962 the BBC broadcast The Prizewinners, a television programme about that year’s Nobel laureates in medicine or physiology (Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for DNA) and chemistry (Max Perutz and John Kendrew for the elucidation of protein structures). The programme, broadcast the day after the ceremony, marked a key stage in the

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