by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)
Some good mentions of their dynamic duo status at The Race for the Double Helix. Their chemistry and love are palpable during their joint interviews.
Very clearly, Francis is the charismatic one, and James is the nerd.
Starting line:
We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A,). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.
The Eighth Day of Creation explains the "salt" part as that was the usual way to prepare DNA for X-ray crystallography, where something binds with the phosphate groups of DNA
The paper then shoots down other previously devised helical structures, notably some containing 3 strands or phosphate on the inside.
Then they briefly describe the structure.
Figure 1.
DNA double helix illustration from "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid"
. Source. Drawn by Francis Crick's wife Odile Crick.
Good mentions at The man who loved numbers, notably youtu.be/PqP2c5xNaTU?t=349 where Bela Bollobas, friend of Littlewood, talks about their collaboration.

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