Recent replies to "Best of Nature --please add your choices"

Reply from Martin Fenner

Martin Fenner — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:32:29 -0000

This week I bought the book A Century of Nature: Twenty-One Discoveries. A lot of the content is also available at the link above. Similar to Best of Nature, the book contains 21 classic papers from the 20th century. Each paper is put into the historical context in an accompaniying essay.

Very interesting reading, for example that the famous last sentence of the Watson and Crick paper (It has not escaped our notice…) was a compromise between the two authors. That essay can be found here.

Reply from Maxine Clarke

Maxine Clarke — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:01:39 -0000

It probably needs more work from us at Nature to encourage readers to nominate/comment, and to generally raise the profile of the feature. Unfortunately, there are just so many things to do….but it would be great if Nature Network members of this group could help to populate the site.

Reply from Martin Fenner

Martin Fenner — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:26:37 -0000

Maxine,

I’ve added the Watson and Crick paper to the Best of Nature section. There are surprisingly few papers in that section.