The Double Helix – Character Guide

Double Helix Readers Guide * Max Perutz was the signal of the unit where kink works at Cambridge University. Perutz also shared historic roentgenogram crystallography imagery with Watson and Crick that he had received from Maurice Wilkins and Franklin. Whether he was supposed to bewilder this information to Watson and Crick without Franklins knowlight-emitting diodege is unknow, nor is it entirely known how important her work was to the husking of the structure. Sir Lawrence Bragg the head of the Cavendish testing ground at Cambridge university, met with much ohmic resistance from Watson and especially Crick. Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel observe winner, which he won for the discovery of the Bragg broken in of X-ray crystallography. Bragg also wrote the foreword to Watsons book, adding dramatically to the respectability of the book. * outhouse Kendrew English educated, also worked in the Cavendish laboratory under the direction of Bragg. Worked well with Perutz and s hared the 1962 Nobel prize with him for their work on X-ray crystallography. Erwin Schrodinger his book What is support was a great inspiration to Watson, who agreed that many secrets can be uncovered if the scientific world dedicated itself to discovery of what the true secrets of brio are * O. T. Avery important because their research on deoxyribonucleic acid/protein after Griffiths taste on the transforming factor, was decisive enough for Watson to believe that DNA was the genetic worldly (not protein as was believed) * Max Delbruck pi unitaryered bacteriophage research which allowed Hershey and succeed to conduct their experiments with radioactive labeling. Maurice Wilkins was Rosalind Franklins coadjutor in X-ray crystallography and played an important use of goods and services in providing Watson with the B-structure of DNA that Franklin and Gosling had made. Franklin, Gosling and Wilkins all worked at Kings College, London. * Rosalind Franklin Although Franklin h ad not agreed to the exchange Wilkins had made (providing of B-structure imagery to Watson), her work proved that DNA was helical and that the bases were on the inside with the sugar phosphates on the outside (as she had give tongue to all along).In short, her 3 contributions were crucial to Watsons development of the model, although the B-model proved one of her theories malign but several right. Furthermore, Watson and Franklin had a very heated relationship, which led to many heated debates and sometimes even conflicts. * Linus Pauling the greatest chemist in the history of the United States, worked at Cal Tech and was the closest competition to Watson and Crick in the discovery of the structure of DNA. Famous for the discovery of the hydrogen perplex and the alpha-helical structure of protein.Hes also famous for publishing a wrong model of DNA (three strands) for which he saw major public embarrassment. * Herman Kalkar was the head of the laboratory in Copenhagen where Wats on did phage research soon after he graduated. He did not enjoy his time in Copenhagen, which is why he left soon after absorbting there. * Salvador Luria James Watson was Lurias eldest graduate student at the University of Indiana. Luria would go on to do groundbreaking work with phages in biochemistry. He would later win the Nobel prize for care for along with Hershey and Delbruck for their work on phages. J. T. Randall was the head of the Kings College laboratory team with Wilkins as his deputy. He shared the 1962 Nobel prize with Watson and crick * Dorothy Hodgkin was the another(prenominal) major female character in the book. Both of the women clearly struggled in a world that was heavily dominated by men. However, Hodgkin was known to get along with men much better than Franklin. She said this was because of her gender, whereas Franklin experienced the opposite. Franklin and Hodgkin worked almost in the contemplation of the DNA structure. Both scientists were X-ray cry stallographers.Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel prize for chemistry * Willy Seeds was famous for calling Watson reliable Jim. Worked with Maurice Wilkins in the Kings laboratory and was famous for his pioneering work on the DNA fibers. Him calling Watson honest Jim was clearly sarcasm because they Kings scientists were still bitter well-nigh Watson stealing their data to make his model * R. G. Gosling this was Franklins lab partner at Kings College laboratory * Erwin Chargaff discovered the bases in the purines and pyrimidines (double and mavin ring) and also discovered that A matches with T and C matches with G.Gave Watson an important tip in his model building, that he had to match the bases. * Al Hershey was a scientist that was known for conducting the final proof of DNA being the hereditary material. Their experiment end the race and assured the scientific world that DNA was the inherited material. * Martha Chase was Hersheys lab partner, and was one of the few other women i n the scientific world * Peter Pauling Linus son, came to study in London and Watson showed him around. In the passage Peter gave Watson some important hints that his father was getting close to the discovery of the alpha helical structure.