he banished the man out on the right,
Sir Lawrence Bragg, who was the Cavendish professor.
This is a photograph several years later,
when Bragg had cause to smile.
He certainly wasn't smiling when I got there,
because he was somewhat humiliated by Pauling getting the alpha helix,
and the Cambridge people failing because they weren't chemists.
And certainly, neither Crick or I were chemists,
so we tried to build a model. And he knew, Francis knew Wilkins.
So Wilkins said he thought it was the helix.
X-ray diagram, he thought was comparable with the helix.
So we built a three-stranded model.
The people from London came up.
Wilkins and this collaborator, or possible collaborator,
Rosalind Franklin, came up and sort of laughed at our model.
They said it was lousy, and it was.
So we were told to build no more models; we were incompetent.
(Laughter)
And so we didn't build any models,
and Francis sort of continued to work on proteins.
And basically, I did nothing. And -- except read.