atara
Bluelighter
don't know as to his claims of being the first to visualise the double-helix structure though... maybe he took lsd and then convinced himself he had discovered it but was just tripping balls at the time.![]()
The way it happened was, Watson and Crick proposed a helical structure, but they had it wrong at first, with the nucleotide base pairs on the outside and the glycophosphate chain on the inside. Franklin had proposed some wierd crystal structure, not a helix.
Later, Watson and Crick rearranged their ideas, based on findings from Franklin, to say the bases were on the inside. This was later shown to be correct.

