Linus Pauling may have been the better chemist, but Francis Crick was better prepared to figure out the structure from that particular photograph. The necessar

Linus Pauling may have been the better chemist, but Francis Crick was better prepared to figure out the structure from that particular photograph. The necessary analysis technique was first developed 2 years earlier, in a paper that Crick was the lead author on. Chance favors the prepared mind. And Crick was extremely well-prepared for this task.