The Race to the Double Helix — Watson, Crick, Franklin & the Real Story of DNA
EP 19
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Wilkins shows Watson Photo 51

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1:00:55>> Okay. >> He's like, "Fine, I'll go." [laughter] >> He down the hall, he goes to Maurice Wilkins office. Maurice Wilkins is in his office. He goes to Maurice Wilkins. He's like, "Maybe I can talk to this guy." He's like, "Look, this is the manuscript. Lionus Powing, he's coming at it. Um Wilkins has all of the data from Rosalyn Franklin. Right. >> Right. Because the transfer is happening, >> right? >> And Wilkins shows him the famous photo. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> This is the famous photo of BDNA. This is a extremely famous photo of the X, the characteristic X that gets you the helix. >> Yes. >> It's so well done. This is the photo

1:01:36that Ryan Gosling took at >> Not Ryan. >> No, not Ryan. What was his name? Raymond. Sorry. Raymond. I just screwed up on that. >> Yeah. This is the photo. This is the photo that Raymond Gosling took. Incredible detail. Right. The spots. >> The the You can tell the angle. So, you can tell the pitch of the helix. You can tell that it's a helix because of the X. The distance between the spots tells you how far apart each nucleotide is. I want to for for people who are listening and not watching, I want to describe what we're seeing here. So, there's two there's two photos next to each other. There's sort of a black and white uh if you've ever looked at photos of like people taking a picture of a petri dish >> like in any science context. That's what

1:02:18it looks like on the left and then on the right is a 3D recreation of the structure >> of what it would look like. >> And so, what I want to The point is there's a 2D there's a 2D black and white image. >> Yes. And it's rich in information. And you can derive the the threedimensional like double helix from a variety of the angle and the angle the spacing of the dots. All of these things in this black and white. >> The fact that there's nothing in the middle means that [clears throat] one strand goes one way and the other strand goes the other way. So it's antiparallel. >> Right? There's so much information in this. And Wilkins shows Watson this photograph. Watson is immediately enamored.

1:02:59>> He tries to memorize this photograph. >> There they were ops kind of because they were kind of competing with each other and then it came to a situation where the enemy of my enemy is my friend. >> Yes. >> Right. Because Powelling showed up. >> Yeah. >> And we're like at the end of the day we're not going to let New York win. The Americans like we're not going to let Keltech win. Right. Right. So in the in the rapology they already won with Alpha. >> Right. So, like we have we And so now Maurice is like, "Okay, let me Yeah. Let me let me show you what we got. >> Here's what we got." She's leaving anyway. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> Exactly. Let me show you what we got. Okay. >> Um Watson immediately heads back to

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