Matthew Cobb

So he says, oh, we're going to get this letter.

And Crick has been warning the people in London, saying the big bad wolf is going to find the solution if you people don't.

So now we've got a situation in which they've got this manuscript from Pauling, Linus Pauling, which is not right.

It's similar to an idea that Watson and Crick had about 15 months earlier.

And it's inside out.

It's got three helices.

It's not right.

And Bragg, who really didn't like Watt Crick and didn't really know much about Watson at all, is persuaded because he's got a beef.

He's had a beef with Pauling for reasons we don't need to go into.

And so the idea...

stealing a march on Pauling is too much for him to resist.

And he says, OK, Watson and Crick, you've got a few weeks to try and do this.

And above all, he does not contact his colleagues in London saying, oh, by the way, we're moving in on your territory.

Meanwhile, back in London, things have gone from bad to worse.

And Franklin, I mean, she decided virtually as soon as she met Wilkin, she wanted to leave, right?

But she's now on the way out.

She's going to another laboratory in London in Birkbeck to work with J.D.

Bernal, but not on DNA because the head of the King's College group has said, you can't take DNA with you.

It's our project, which to be fair was true.

They'd come up with the idea.