“I wish Jim Watson were here”: Letter from Peter Pauling to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling. The transcript on the website reads mistakenly, “I am in direct manner,” when it should be (see original) “in an indirect manner.” At http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/corr/bio5.041.6-peterpauling-lp-19530123.html.

Chapter 7: Whose DNA Is It Anyway?

Watson rushed to Cambridge chemist: Described in Watson 1980, p. 94.

They went to celebrate at the Eagle: Watson 1980, p. 95. Watson wrote, “Instead of sherry, I let Francis buy me a whiskey.”

“Pauling just didn’t try”: Wilkins added, “He can’t have looked closely at the details of what they did publish on base pairing, in that paper; almost all the details are simply wrong.” Cited in Judson 1996, p. 80. Pauling himself admitted to Judson (1996, p. 135), “We weren’t working very hard on it.”