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Fri 26 Apr, 2019 02:09 am
"In 1960, during a long conversation with two of the other giants of molecular biology, Francis Crick and François Jacob, he was the first person in
the world—by about a second—to understand how cells read genes
to make proteins." (This sentence is from an obituary of The Economist.) What does "by about a second" mean ? Does it mean that about a second later, Crick or/and Jacob also understand how cells read genes to make proteins.
@hkhlcq,
That expression is a kind of humorous exaggeration. I'm not sure who first made the discovery, but it means that someone else discovered it shortly thereafter.
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