NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Francis Crick, Human Genome Project, Big Science
6 Feb 2018
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After ww2 scientists became interested in what dna looked like. It became a race because scientists and researchers were aware if they were the first to discover the dna structure it would mean huge rewards for them. Rosalin franklin and moris wilkin were trying to find the structure of dna. In the beginning of their relationship has huge problems: rosalin was expert in x-ray christogrophhy, she used this to find the structure of dna using this. Francis crick and james watson ultimately given credit for this finding. They started their partnership by coming together who shared lab space together: model building is the technique they used, they created 3d models to illustrate the structure of dna. Watso(cid:374) a(cid:374)d cri(cid:272)ks resear(cid:272)hed lagged (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d other groups tr(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to address this issue they became friendly with wilkin and franklin: franklin and wilkin pointed out errors in their initial design.
