The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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... success was his reliance on the simple laws of structural chem- istry . The a - helix had not been found by only staring at X - ray pictures ; the essential trick , instead , was to ask which atoms like to sit next to each other . In ...
... success was his reliance on the simple laws of structural chem- istry . The a - helix had not been found by only staring at X - ray pictures ; the essential trick , instead , was to ask which atoms like to sit next to each other . In ...
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... success with Bill Cochran in working out the helical diffraction theory . The theory was much too elegant not to be told in person— individuals like Dorothy who were clever enough to understand its power immediately were much too rare ...
... success with Bill Cochran in working out the helical diffraction theory . The theory was much too elegant not to be told in person— individuals like Dorothy who were clever enough to understand its power immediately were much too rare ...
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... success was due to the long unevent- ful periods when we walked among the colleges or unobtrusively read the new books that came into Hef- fer's Bookstore . After contentedly poring over The Times , I wandered into the lab to see ...
... success was due to the long unevent- ful periods when we walked among the colleges or unobtrusively read the new books that came into Hef- fer's Bookstore . After contentedly poring over The Times , I wandered into the lab to see ...
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a-helix adenine answer argument arrival atoms bacterial base pairs biochemistry biological Cal Tech Cambridge Cavendish chains Chargaff chemical chemistry chemists College conversation Copenhagen crystallographic crystals cytosine Delbrück dinner DNA molecule DNA structure double helix Elizabeth existed experimental fact fellowship Francis Crick genes genetic girls Griffith guanine helical Herman hope Hugh Huxley hydrogen bonds idea immediately important ions John Kendrew keto King's knew large number letter like-with-like Linus Pauling London look lunch Luria manuscript Maurice Wilkins Maurice's Max and John Max Delbrück Max Perutz model building molecular Moreover morning never Nonetheless nucleic acids nucleotides Odile Pauling's Perutz Peter phage phosphate groups polynucleotide Pop's possibility problem protein purine purine and pyrimidine pyrimidine quickly reason Rosalind Franklin Rosy Rosy's scientific Sir Lawrence Bragg solve soon sugar-phosphate backbone talk tautomeric forms tell theory thought three-chain thymine tion told walked wanted Watson week X-ray diffraction X-ray pictures