The Cavendish Laboratory is the prominent laboratory at the University of Cambridge where Watson and Crick conducted their research in the early 1950s and discovered DNA’s double helix structure.
Cavendish Laboratory Quotes in The Double Helix
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Chapter 14
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Sir Lawrence had had too much of Francis to be surprised that he had again stirred up an unnecessary tempest. There was no telling where he would let loose the next explosion. If he continued to behave this way, he could easily spend the next five years in the lab without collecting sufficient data to warrant an honest Ph.D. The chilling prospect of enduring Francis throughout the remaining years of his tenure as the Cavendish Professor was too much to ask of Bragg or anyone with a normal set of nerves.
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The decision was thus passed on to Max that Francis and I must give up DNA. Bragg felt no qualms that this might impede science, since inquiries to Max and John had revealed nothing original in our approach.
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Chapter 1
...in 1951. At the time, Crick was working in Max Perutz and Sir Lawrence Bragg’s Cavendish Laboratory , which studied proteins through X-ray diffraction. Crick did some experiments, but he was mainly...
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Chapter 6
When Watson first met Max Perutz at the Cavendish Laboratory , he knew nothing about crystallography. But he learned fast. Cambridge’s beautiful buildings entranced him—he...
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Chapter 8
...after the war ended, he switched to biology. That’s how he ended up at the Cavendish Laboratory , 35 years old and without a PhD. Fortunately, Max Perutz and John Kendrew convinced...
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Chapter 16
Watson spent his days at the Cavendish Laboratory studying TMV, or tobacco mosaic virus. He chose it because one of its main components...
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Chapter 24
In the Cavendish Laboratory the next morning, Watson told Max Perutz and Sir Lawrence Bragg about Maurice Wilkins and...
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Chapter 28
After Maurice Wilkins arrived in the Cavendish Laboratory , he spent a long time silently studying Crick and Watson’s molecular model. Watson realized...
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