A few of them "fathers" died lately. E.g. Caltech Prof. Emiritus Arnold Beckman, the father of the pH meter [whose generosity touched me professionally]. Any chemist or biologist working right now is probably using a Beckman Instrument, be it a pH meter, centrifuge, UV spectrophotometer, etc. You chemists should visit his museum in the Beckman Institute, one level below my lab; it is amazing what he did. Then there is Caltech Prof. Emiritus Ed Lewis who, until last weekend was down the hall from me, a Nobel Laureate, the father of the Hox genes; he is the dude who gave some fruit flies an extra pair of wings in the '60 using the genes). Next, Caltech Prof. Emiritus Norman Davidson, etc, etc.
BTW, I have never excused Watson and Crick for never officially admitting that their discovery was based in part on illegally obtained data from Rosalind Franklin's notebook. This wonderful lady should have been the third person in the Nobel citation, i.e. two fathers and a mother of DNA: Watson, Crick and Rosalin.
Ochan
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