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A portion of an entry into the diary of Gerard Roland Pomerat dated Cambridge, 1 April, 1953.  Pomerat (GRP), of the Rockefeller Foundation,  was visiting Sir Lawrence Bragg (Sir L), the director of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England.  Perutz was leader of one of the research groups working at Cavendish.  Both Perutz and Bragg were primarily interested in the study of protein structure by X-ray diffraction.  Randall was the director of another X-ray analysis unit at King's College; under him worked Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, the latter having obtained the "beautiful X-ray diagrams..."  The two "younger men" were James Watson, an American postdoc in Cambridge and Francis Crick a PhD student under Perutz direction (from Nature Vol 415 pp473-474, 2002).