Nottingham celebrates 70th anniversary of the discovery of hydrogen bonds in DNA

The discovery of hydrogen bonds in DNA was made by a young Nottingham Post Graduate student, J. Michael Creeth, in what was known as the Nucleic Acid Laboratory at (the then) University College Nottingham. The discovery paved the way for the double helix model by Watson and Crick six years later. On Friday 10 November 2017, the University of Nottingham will mark the 70th anniversary of the publication of this research with a one day celebratory meeting attended by 16 members of the Creeth family. The event will be held in the Trent Building on University Park where the discovery was made. It is being staged with the support of the Biochemical Society , Royal Society of Chemistry and the British Biophysical Society and will conclude with a plaque unveiling by Mrs Patricia Creeth, Dr Creeth's wife, at the entrance to the Trent Building, the site of the former Nucleic Acid Laboratory. Professor Stephen Harding , Professor of Applied Biochemistry in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, was Dr Creeth's last Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Bristol. Professor Harding, who co-authored Creeth's obituary for the Independent newspaper and the Biochemical Society, will lead the commemoration with a brief history of the discovery in 1947 - which was made under the supervision of Dr D.O Jordan and Professor J.M Gulland FRS.