51 Years Later, Influential DNA Manuscript to Be Published

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: So says Bruce Fraser, the author of a 51-year-old manuscript on the structure of DNA that is finally being published after spending decades hidden away in a colleague's files.

"I'm thinking of the Guinness Book of World Records for delays in publication," says Mr. Fraser, who will turn 80 this year and is retired from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, in Australia.

The appearance of the paper in the March issue of the

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