The Eagle (pub)

The Eagle (pub)

:"The Eagle is a moderately common pub name. This article refers to "The Eagle" on Bene't Street, Cambridge, England."

The Eagle is one of the larger pubs in Cambridge and serves Greene King beers. Apart from the main bar, it sports a non-smoking room, a beer garden, and the so-called RAF bar with still-extant graffiti of World War II airmen at the back.

The site is owned by Corpus Christi College. The beer garden is overlooked by Corpus student accommodation and must be vacated by 10:30 p.m. every night.

When the Cavendish Laboratory was still at its old site at nearby Free School Lane the pub was a popular lunch destination for staff working there. Thus it became the place where Francis Crick interrupted patrons' lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had "discovered the secret of life" after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA. The anecdote is related in Watson's book "The Double Helix" [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804545.stm|title='Secret of life' discovery turns 50|publisher=BBC|date=27 February, 2003] and commemorated on a plaque next to the entrance.

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