James Watson & Francis Crick
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- Episode: Chicago's Renegade Sheriff Wants to Fix Law Enforcement | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 100
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireSo a really disruptive paper, like Watson and Crick's seminal work that showed that DNA was in the form of a double helix, is really disruptive because all the models people proposed before them suddenly become irrelevant, and nobody will cite those papers anymore—so that's really disruptive research.