The Race to the Double Helix — Watson, Crick, Franklin & the Real Story of DNA
EP 19
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Cambridge vs. King’s College

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32:24fidelity that we're going down >> yes so we're getting clues into what DNA is right we're getting slowly we're we're honing down into this these are called charg rules which is the A equals the T the C equals the G and they all add up to 100%. >> Everything we have today is building off of the shoulders of the people who came before who asked maybe simpler questions. >> Yeah. >> Figured out the simpler question that allowed us to ask now more complex questions. >> Yes. Yes. Exactly. >> And we're kind of going through an example of that journey. >> Yeah. And I I that's why I love the story is like it's really building up this, you know, crown jewel, >> right? >> It's not it's not just randomly these

33:04guys came up with it. They didn't walk into a cave and find it. They had to be crafted. >> There were there were there were a bunch of people. There was an entire community trying to figure this out, right? And maybe these guys just got lucky, >> right? You know, >> right? Look, it happens. >> It happens. And now after all that, we get to the setting of the story. After all that, >> 1951, England. >> Oh. So, what's great is we were in Liverpool. >> Mhm. >> Speaking Scout, >> we were in Liverpool. We were in Colombia. Columbia. >> We were in um Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan. And now we're finally getting to where the room where it happens. >> The room where it happens.

33:45>> There's [clears throat] two rooms where it happens. It turns out >> in the Caendish lab. Okay. >> Which is the physics department of Cambridge University. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And King's College London. >> I'm feeling a little Cavendish right now. >> I don't know. [laughter] >> Yeah. But those are the two rooms where it happens. Okay. the Cavendish lab which is a storied lab. Y >> it's the it's where you know all sorts of stuff have happened right [laughter] JJ Thompson discovered the electron this is the you know crucible of experimental physics before America took over post war okay and this is actually one of the last big things that they did tough but

34:27it's it's good it's they had a good run while they were at it >> and look we and we appreciate

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