The news reached readers of The New York Times the next day; Victor K. McElheny, in researching his biography, "Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution", found a clipping of a six-paragraph New York Times article written from London and dated May 16, 1953 with the headline "Form of `Life Unit' in Cell Is Scanned."
The news was reported in The New York Times on the following day; Victor K. McElheny discovered a six-paragraph article from London dated May 16, 1953 with the headline "Form of `Life Unit' in Cell Is Scanned" while researching his biography "Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution."