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In 1969 Jonathan Beckwith, leading a team of Harvard Medical School scientists, isolated and photographed a gene for the first time.

Chemist Kenneth Conrow in 1967 employed a computer to assist in the complex task of naming new chemical compounds he was developing; in the process he found twenty-nine compounds that had been incorrectly named in official publications.

Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., made the sixth and last of the Project Mercury flights in May 1963, manually landing the craft after it developed electrical problems.

Archaeologist Richard Daugherty and geologist Roald Fryxell of Washington State University announced in 1968 the discovery in southern Washington of the oldest human remains found in the Western Hemi-sphere.

In 1960 C. H. W. Hirs and colleagues at the Rockefeller Institute and the Brooklyn National Laboratory provided the first delineation...

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