''The Times Science Review'', founded in 1951 and discontinued in 1966, was ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...

'' quarterly science review. The magazine started as ''The Times Review of the Progress of Science'', but became better known as ''The Times Science Review''. In October 2009 ''The Times'' started ''Eureka'', a monthly science magazine, and includes the 60-page magazine with ''The Times'' on the first Thursday of each month. The ''Times Science Review'' is not on line. It can be accessed in print at the Newspaper Library at Colindale, London under System number: 013904756, starting with ''The Times Review of the Progress of Science'' no.'s 1-3 (Aug.1951 - Spring 1952), followed by no.4-60 Summer 1952 - Summer 1966 under Shelfmark: 1952-1966 LON LD2 NPL.

DNA discovery unreported

In 1953 both ''The Times'' and its new ''Science Review'' supplement failed to report on James D. Watson's and

Francis Crick Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the Nucleic acid doub ...

's discovery of the structure of

DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer carries genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of al ...

. The discovery was made on 28 February 1953 and was announced by Sir

Lawrence Bragg Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father William Henry Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by m ...

, the director of the

Cavendish Laboratory The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named ...

where Watson and Crick worked, at the

Solvay conference The Solvay Conferences () have been devoted to preeminent unsolved problems in both physics and chemistry. They began with the historic invitation-only 1911 Solvay Conference on Physics, considered a turning point in the world of physics, and ar ...

proteins Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including catalysing metabolic reactions, DNA replication, re ...

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on 8 April 1953. Bragg's announcement went unreported on by the press. Watson and Crick's paper then appeared in ''

Nature Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

'' magazine on 25 April 1953. Bragg then discussed the discovery during a talk at

Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy in 1721, located in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the Kin ...

Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953. This resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in the '' News Chronicle'' of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled "Why You Are You. Nearer Secret of Life." ''The New York Times'' reported on it the next day in an article entitled "Form of 'Life Unit' in Cell Is Scanned". The article ran in the ''Times''s early edition, but was pulled to make space for news deemed more important. (''The New York Times'' subsequently ran a longer article on the discovery on 12 June 1953). The Cambridge University undergraduate newspaper '' Varsity'' ran a short article on the discovery on 30 May 1953.

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The Newspaper Library, Colindale, London

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