DNA Structure and Classic experiments, excerpt 2 MIT 7.01SC Fundamentals of Biology
INSTRUCTOR: Good morning. Good morning. So, anybody check The New York Times yesterday? What did you see? AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] INSTRUCTOR: People, what people? AUDIENCE: I can't remember their names. [INAUDIBLE] INSTRUCTOR: [LAUGHS] AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] I can't remember their names. INSTRUCTOR: Yeah, the Crick and Watson people. AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]. INSTRUCTOR: Exactly. So, perfect timing, The New York Times had an article in yesterday's paper. Francis Crick's correspondence with Maurice Wilkins during the critical year when Crick and Watson went down and saw the X-ray crystallography. By the way, I made a mistake. I said that Rosalind Franklin showed it to Crick and Watson. Actually it was Maurice Wilkins who showed it to Crick and Watson when Rosalind Franklin was away. Which, was itself a slightly complicated thing to be doing because it was really Rosalind Franklin's work. But in any case, there was correspondence, some heated correspondence th...