Discovering DNA: the Farm Boy and the Grasshoppers

Brilliance shone from the heartland to NYC — only to fade with lost opportunities for all

ScienceDuuude
Exploring History
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12 min readOct 2, 2020

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A plains lubber grasshopper (Brachystola Magna) [(Wikimedia Commons)]

From the farm to the big city

At the turn of the 20th century, a farm boy enrolled at the University of Kansas to study engineering, hoping to reinforce a natural talent honed by years…

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Exploring History

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