story of the discovery of DNA: From Avery's awesome zombie apocalypse strep experiment to Watson and Crick's brilliant model making. And don't forget Ms. Rosalind Franklin, who's groundbreaking work on X-ray diffraction on DNA crystals helped Watson and Crick crack the code.
The presentation notes today are here . It has many details on the three kinds of nucleic acids: DNA, RNA and ATP. We covered up to the end of DNA and will continue with the other part next day.
FYI , another summary of the discovery of DNA can be found in this link from the Nobel Prize website.
And, for those keeners amongst you, here is the ORIGINAL PAPER from "Nature". It's super short and quite readable for a groundbreaking scientific paper that revolutionized our ideas of reproduction. They do have a small mention of Wilkin and Franklin along with other researchers at the very end of their paper.
