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Father figures
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Correspondence: Mark A Jobling maj4@le.ac.uk
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Investigative Genetics 2011, 2:21 doi:10.1186/2041-2223-2-21
Published: 6 October 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Show a portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third US President, to a room full of Brits, and no-one ever knows who he is. But if there is an American there, it's a different matter. They always recognise him: maybe not from his appearance on the two-dollar bill (a Baltimore resident was briefly incarcerated for proffering a wad of these rarities in a car radio shop), but more likely from the ubiquitous nickel, or from high school history lessons.