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...took about a week for Watson and Crick to see that Donohue was right. The Cavendish machine shop would have to build new pieces for their models. Watson couldn't wait. He spent the afternoon of Feb. 27 cutting his own pieces out of cardboard. Then he went out to the theater...
...meeting in May 1952; it would be tougher to refuse him in person. As Pauling was preparing to board a plane in New York, however, the U.S. government seized his passport, citing what they considered his dangerous left-wing political views. While that setback might delay Pauling, Watson and Crick knew it would not stop...
...course DNA was an acid. Pauling, the world's greatest chemist, had made a mistake in basic chemistry--an unimaginable blooper. Watson and Crick retired to the Eagle to drink a toast to Pauling's failure. They were more nervous than ever, though. The paper was scheduled to be published in March; once it was out, someone would notice the error, and Pauling would work that much harder to vindicate himself. They had at most six weeks to figure...
...wasn't just the clarity of Franklin's picture that excited Watson. It was also the fact that the pattern repeated itself every 34 angstroms (an angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter). That gave Crick and Watson crucial information about the angles between bonded molecules. Even better, the image suggested that the bases attached to the backbone were neatly stacked one on top of the other...
...Cricks had Wilkins and Watson to lunch, and the Cavendish scientists learned several things. First, it was O.K. with Wilkins if they proceeded with their model building (a good thing, since they had already started and had no intention of stopping now). More important, they evidently also learned that the King's group had prepared a report on its DNA studies for the Medical Research Council, which funded the work. It wasn't a confidential document, so Watson and Crick got hold of a copy. In it were some more crucial clues, including the fact that DNA had a particular...