Double dealing
The most fascinating part of this story was the effort of Watson to keep in touch with
the son of Linus Pauling, who was hot on the path to discover the DNA molecule. It
was almost strange the way Watson and Crick used the x ray analysis of a female
coworker to describe the DNA molecule and later be awarded the Nobel Prize while
she, of course, could not be awarded the prize because she was dead. It's a story
of hard work and some dirty dealing that ended up with the molecule of life being
described. DNA profiling in crime detection and in the use of geneology work has
proven wide spread for it's accuracy. People who were innocent and imprisoned became free and
the ancestors of Thomas Jefferson were establised.