Word: watsons
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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...
...Watson attends Maurice Wilkins' lecture on X-ray crystal-lography...
...Watson arrives at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where he meets Francis Crick...
...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...
...there remained the problem of how to fit the bases together. Watson kept trying to do it by pairing like with like--an A attached to one backbone linked to an A on the other. Chemically, it would work. The bases were different enough in size and shape, though, that this scheme led to either a gap between bases or misshapen backbones. Worse yet, when Watson happened to show his idea to Jerry Donohue, an American crystallographer doing a stint at the Cavendish, Donohue informed him that the bases came in more than one chemical form. Watson was using...