Rosalind Franklin and The Double Helix

The book was controversial before it went to press, and Harvard University Press declined to publish it as originally planned. Nonetheless it [Pg.216]

This was Linus Pauling s personal copy of this photo and he annotated it to the right of the figure. This furnished the critical clue that solved the double-helix structure of DNA. (The Valley Library, Oregon State University) [Pg.216]

It was Rosalind Franklin who set me the example of tackling large and difficult problems. Had her life not been cut tragically short, she might well have stood in this place on an earlier occasion. [Pg.216]

The heauty of the double helix is that its function was immediately apparent. Its form (twofold symmetry) perfectly fit one of its critical fimc- [Pg.216]

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