But, you know, we thought, well, it's at least 95 percent right or 99 percent right.
So think about it. The next five years,
there were essentially something like five references
to our work in "Nature" -- none.
And so we were left by ourselves,
and trying to do the last part of the trio: how do you --
what does this genetic information do?
It was pretty obvious that it provided the information
to an RNA molecule, and then how do you go from RNA to protein?
For about three years we just -- I tried to solve the structure of RNA.
It didn't yield. It didn't give good x-ray photographs.
I was decidedly unhappy; a girl didn't marry me.
It was really, you know, sort of a shitty time.
(Laughter)
So there's a picture of Francis and I before I met the girl,
so I'm still looking happy.
(Laughter)
But there is what we did when we didn't know
where to go forward: we formed a club and called it the RNA Tie Club.
George Gamow, also a great physicist, he designed the tie.
He was one of the members. The question was: