if there was so many other people who helped how did watson?

Question

if there was so many other people who helped how did watson and cricks discovery of the structure of DNA help to explain the mechanism of DNA replication

Answer 1

Others, especially the woman (whose name escapes me and that is a shame) who was trying in a different direction, did not fully know what they were looking for.

C&W took these disparate pieces and put it all together. They published first and got the credit.

Also, women in the sciences (especially after the war) were sneered at and marginalized. If she had lived longer, she would have also gotten the prize but the Nobels to not give the awards posthumately

Answer 2

They were the two primary people who figured out the structure based on the data. The only problem was that they were pretty egotistical as are many scientists. The primary person they didn't give credit to was Rosalind Franklin for collecting the data without which they wouldn't have discovered anything.

I am not trying to trivialize their achievement, it was extremely significant. But they just did not credit the people without which it would never have happened.

Answer 3

they used the info from others to figure out what it was really like.
the other folks only had pieces of the puzzle.

a simple explanation is that its like a zipper that unzips then makes the other missing side from food we eat