Watson began working on tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), which contains a nucleic acid called RNA. He hoped that his studies would help him eventually learn about DNA. Watson began learning how to make X-ray crystallography images in order to try to show that TMV had helically stacked protein. As he struggled unsuccessfully to make decent X-ray photographs, he accompanied Crick's wife to parties that her husband didn't want to go to. At the end of the chapter, Linus Pauling is expected to arrive in England.....
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