Artis Nateephaisan
Period 1
Honors Biology

There are many ways and methods scientists use to make historical discoveries. In the novel The Double Helix by James D Watson, this exact thing happens to the various scientists throughout the story. In this particular section of the novel, Sir Lawrence Bragg had asked Watson and Crick to stop working on DNA due to Watson and Crick presenting flawed models to Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin (who were also working on DNA, but used different methods). After Watson was told that he was prohibited from studying DNA, he was offered a job to work on TMV. This was a good choice, because his work on TMV had helped him realize that the proteins in the structure of TMV were arranged like a helix. The