Double Helix

People Doing Science: The Double Helix (The discovery of DNA's Double Helix) The Double Helix tells the story of the discovery of DNA’s structure as seen through the eyes of the author, James D. Watson. The book starts in the fall of 1951 with Watson, an American postdoctoral fellow, arriving at Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. Although, he originally worked on the three-dimensional structure of proteins, Watson gradually turned his attention to the structure of …

…Watson and Crick had already discovered the double helix. They put their own glory above, the accuracy of science. Science is a body of knowledge, but it is also how people discover this knowledge. In the end, “people ‘do’ science” through the procedures they use and through their ability to interact with others. Although in The Double Helix, many of the relationships between the main characters were tense, they did successfully solve DNA’s structure.