Willy Seeds was Maurice Wilkins’s research partner at King’s College London. He visited Cambridge to see Crick and Watson’s unsuccessful first model of DNA, and several years after the book’s events, he ran into Watson in the Swiss Alps and asked him, “How’s Honest Jim?” (This was a sarcastic reference to Crick and Watson stealing Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction data.)
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Willy Seeds Character Timeline in The Double Helix
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Introduction
...his friend Alfred Tissieres in the Swiss Alps in 1955. They ran into the scientist Willy Seeds on a path near their hotel. But instead of stopping to chat, Seeds kept walking...
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Chapter 12
...he sounded uninterested on the phone, he visited Cambridge the next day with his colleague Willy Seeds , Rosalind Franklin, and Franklin’s student R.G. Gosling.
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Chapter 13
In the morning, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Willy Seeds , and R.G. Gosling visited Cambridge, where Crick and Watson explained their theory. But their...
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