4.
Francis Crick
 On
his arrival in Cambridge Watson was introduced to Francis
Crick. Crick was thirty-five and working towards a PhD
in the Cavendish. He 'talked louder and faster than anyone
else' and was interested in all the experiments going
on around him, not just his own study of proteins. Unfortunately
his loud laugh would often annoy Professor Bragg, his
supervisor!
Crick
was very interested in how genetic information was communicated,
and believed DNA could be the key, although he did not
begin actively researching it until Watson's arrival.
At the time the Cavendish was more interested in proteins,
while nucleic acids were being investigated at King's
College in London by Maurice Wilkins, the man whose
X-ray photographs had first caught Watson's attention.
Crick and Wilkins often spoke to each other and it would
have seemed wrong for Crick to 'steal' Wilkins' area
of research.
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