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Who cares about the double helix?

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Collective memory links the past to the future in science as well as history.

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Figure 1: Citations per year of Watson and Crick's first 1953 Nature paper in scientific journals (English language only).

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I thank Soraya de Chadarevian, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Marc Geiser and Michel Morange for discussions.

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Strasser, B. Who cares about the double helix?. Nature 422, 803–804 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/422803a

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