theeagle2

theeagle2
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The most famous pub in Cambridge is the eagle. It's just around the corner from Cavandish College Lab, which is the lab that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA in. The patrons of this pub found out about the structure of DNA three months before the scientific community because after they figured it out they went to the eagle and had beers while telling all of those inside what they'd just discovered. The magazine Nature, which published their paper, came out three months later. This is dwarf with the plaque on the eagle pub.