Matthew Cobb

So in 1947, he's charted out the next 67 years or 57 years of his existence.

And that's what he did.

He decided that he'd deal with life first because it seemed a bit easier.

Plus there was the x-ray crystallography that might help.

And that's what happened.

So that's really everything that follows from that decision in 1947.

Well, that's going to be very tricky.

So I'm going to have to skip over a lot of the detail.

Otherwise, we will get lost in the weeds and we'll be here for an hour or so.

So the key thing is, you're absolutely right.

Watson and Crick were not, they only worked on DNA for about six weeks.

Neither of them were supposed to be studying it.

Crick, as his boss Sir Lawrence Bragg said, was a chap who liked doing other people's crosswords.

So if you had a problem, Crick would find the answer to it, even if you didn't want to.

You know, he was always interested in other people's things and experiments that had just come out.

How could you interpret them and so on?

Probably quite infuriating.

Certainly Bragg found it himself.

Watson was much younger.

He was, what, eight years younger.