“You would be eccentric”: Crick in a recorded interview with Robert Olby; Olby 1974, p. 294.

he and Crick produced their first model: A draft describing their approach was written by Crick (Olby 1974, p. 357). Crick states clearly in the draft that his first model with Watson was “stimulated by the results presented by the workers at King’s College, London, at a colloquium given on 21st November 1951.” He also refers explicitly to Pauling’s alpha-helix model.

the reported water content was completely wrong: Franklin found eight molecules per nucleotide, while Watson reported four molecules per lattice point.

discovered some long-lost correspondence of Francis Crick: Gann and Witkowski 2010.

“I am afraid the average vote”: Gann and Witkowski 2010.