Matthew Cobb

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579 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 7 Dec

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And Wilkins got very, very cross about the double helix for lots of reasons, partly because of the way he portrayed Franklin.

And Wilkins in particular, although Wilkins really didn't like her, was very annoyed about that, and Crick was as well.

They were really cross because of what,

made the book success because it's written in this brilliant, very easygoing style.

You think it's all true.

You believe every word on the page because of the way it's written.

And it's all Francis this and Jim that and Morris that and Rosalind the other.

So it's very intimate.

And that's not how science was at the time.

And it's not how scientists who grew up in the 1930s, like Crick and Wilkins, thought that science should be presented.

They thought that, well,

Yeah, well, they weren't professors, either of them.

But, you know, Dr. Wilkins and Dr. Crick, if you please, not Morris and Francis, right?

And, you know, so they're a different generation.

They're a different nationality.

Neither of them was involved in teaching.

Jim was heavily involved with teaching with the young generation.

He knew that something was happening, right?

You know, it's fairly obvious the world was changing.

You know, something is happening, Mr. Jones, and you don't know what it is.

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