Indeed, we have come a long way since the influential discovery made by James Watson and Sir Francis Crick, but even their wildest imaginations could not comprehend the effects of the insight that they shared with the scientific world that day. ... For the most part, there were only two real competitors: Linus Pauling, a master physical chemist, and the very loosely formed alliance between Cavendish scientists James Watson and Francis Crick and King's College scientists Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin (A Twist of Fate). ...

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