The culture in Maurice Wilkins' lab, Raymond Gosling
Interviewee: Raymond Gosling. Raymond Gosling - Rosalind Franklin's graduate student - talks about Franklin's relationship with Maurice Wilkins. (DNAi Location: Code > Finding the structure > Players > Rosalind Franklin > Bad chemistry?)
And they never got together from the word go, to work as a team, partially I think because they were constitutionally more suited to working separately. I mean uncle Maurice was, as we called him, not necessarily to his face, but other Ph.D. students in there, we all referred to him in this way as being an elder statesman who was above us all and very clever and you would go along. But he, we weren't, we weren't working hand in glove, there wasn't that intimacy if you will, that developed between Watson and Crick. Wilkins was shy and kept to himself. Along comes Rosalind Franklin, thinking she is going to do a particular job, also being rather reserved, and wanting to get on with it. And they just did not mix from the word go, they, they, they never sat down together long enough to exchange ideas.
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15461. The double helix and the Nobel Prize, James Watson
James Watson talks about who he thinks should have won the Nobel Prize in 1962.
16439. Biography 19: Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
James Watson and Francis Crick solved the structure of DNA. Other scientists, like Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, also contributed to this discovery.
15260. Rosalind Franklin points out Watson and Crick's mistakes, Raymond Gosling
Raymond Gosling - Rosalind Franklin's graduate student - talks about what Franklin knew from the B-form diffraction pattern.
15455. Winning the race for the double helix, James Watson
James Watson talks about his partnership with Francis Crick.
16438. Biography 19: Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
16440. Biography 19: Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916-2004)
(L-R) Maurice Wilkins (Physiology or Medicine), M. Perutz (Chemistry), Francis Crick (Physiology or Medicine), J. Steinbeck (Literature), James Watson (Physiology or Medicine), J. Kendrew (Chemistry).
15543. James Watson and Francis Crick
James Watson and Francis Crick, Cambridge University, 1953
16437. Biography 19: James Dewey Watson (1928- )
15454. Whose name went first on the Nature paper?, James Watson
James Watson talks about how he and Francis Crick decided whose name went first on the 1953 paper.