Talk:RNA Tie Club

honorary members

Does anyone know who the honorary members of the club were? I've seen a copy of a letter to Watson indicating that they were voting on:
"Fritz Lipmann, CY
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, AD"
But I'm not sure that either of these choices accepted the honorary member slots. --Ojganesh (talk) 20:41, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Triplet codon idea - was Brenner or Gamow first?

The latest edit today places Brenner's idea on triplet codons before Gamow. Is this the right order? I remember that Crick mentions in "What mad pursuit" (sorry, I don't have a copy now to check) that Gamow sent Crick and Watson a letter very soon (1953 or 1954) after their Nature paper, to suggest a simple argument that triplets are necessary to form 20 amino acids. Brenner's work was later and much more definitive, based on real AA sequences etc. So I think we should follow the chronological order - Gamow's letter would have been trivial if he had written it after Brenner's work. Dirac66 (talk) 20:29, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

You're right. I moved the text around and made the mistake. Fixing it now. Actually Gamow's struggle to understand the number of nucleotides involved is fascinating (the "diamond code" theory which he fought so hard with to prove before moving on to the "triangle code" theory, http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/SC/B/B/W/R/_/scbbwr.pdf ) and should be summarized and added in... --Ojganesh (talk) 16:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

where were the ties made?

The section about the ties and tiepins is unusually detailed, yet it leaves out the name of the store that made the ties, or the name of the tailor. Is this information known? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.178.249.132 (talk) 13:04, 29 March 2010 (UTC)