Throughout the years many people have wondered how living things pass on traits. Four scientists took this question and challenged it and went on to explain something we all wondered about, DNA. Through this discover they asked multiple questions like: how could DNA carry all the information needed to make a new organism, what caused the pattern, how did it all fit together? Later on in their discovery they asked more specific questions like: how could the bases fit inside chains without touching and repelling one another? By the power of technology they were able to gain the motivation and ability to answer all of these questions and more. The advancements of technology enabled these four scientist (Franklin, Watson, Crick, and Wilkins) to…show more content… His career started at a conference he attended where they gave away samples of high-quality DNA. When Wilkins took this DNA sample back to his lab he had his student, Raymond Gosling, look at the DNA with new technique called X-ray diffraction. Another scientist, James Watson was also in this quest to figure out DNA. Watson ended up going to a conference where Wilkins was presenting his findings (the most detailed information about the structure of DNA at that time), during this conference Watson noticed a pattern in the DNA. It was this pattern that Watson came to the conclusion that he thought he would be able to unravel the structure himself. The study then moved to Rosalind Franklin, who specialized in X-ray diffraction, she started this quest when she was asked to share her knowledge to the DNA project and then it caught her attention and imagination. Franklin then began working with Gosling and over the summer of 1951 she taught Gosling the exacting X-ray diffraction techniques that she had developed. She took her knowledge that DNA took up water and reasoned that phosphates must be on the outside of the helix since they attract
