Template talk:Double helix

message: "Neither Pauling nor Debrück made a significant contribution, Chargaff and Astbury did more"
Delbruck had a powerful influence on physical scientists who moved into biology (examples: Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins). Delbruck's thinking about the physical basis of life stimulated Erwin Schrödinger to write his book, What Is Life?. Schrödinger's book was an important influence in attracting Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins to work on the problem of the physical basis of heredity. Delbruck's efforts to promote the "Phage Group" was important in the early development of molecular biology, recognition that DNA is the key genetic molecule, and the Phage Group had a particularly strong influence on Watson and his drive to discover the structure of DNA. 
Linus Pauling was very influential in developing the means to understand the structure of biological molecules. Pauling's 1951 publication of the structure of the alpha helix of proteins was used by Crick and Watson as an example of how molecular modeling of large molecules is possible without exact knowledge of atomic coordinates. Watson figured out the DNA base pairs using simple molecular model components much in the same way Pauling figured out the alpha helix. Early in 1953 Pauling published an incorrect triple helix model of DNA. Both Crick, and particularly Watson, felt that they were racing against Pauling to discover the structure of DNA. Once the Pauling model reached England, Watson and Crick were given permission to return to molecular model work.
:I have no objection to adding Chargaff and Astbury to the template.<BR>
--JWSchmidt 21:26, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pauling and Delbruk 

message: Options for linking articles that describe the discovery of the DNA double helix.
 This navigation box is shown above on this page. It is the first "single column" navigation box, above right. As is the case for Template:Double helix, this template has two parameters. The first parameter for this template is a descriptive title or "name" for the navigation box. It also takes the name of an image as a second parameter for the template. Shown with Rosalind Franklin image. Code for the example shown: 
: This navigation box is similar to Double helix2 but does not use an image.
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--JWSchmidt 16:21, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of navigation box choices 

message: Would'nt be good to group together lab colleges? There was various separate "team"s in the research of the double helix structure. Khullah (talk) 20:22, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grouping authors 

message: In chargaff's rule's article it says it had 23 scientists involved in this subject, but the boxes show only 12-16. Wich is right? Khullah (talk) 20:42, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing authors