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Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
by pbnjay 7y ago
Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
- emiliobumachar 7y agoDid Watson and his co-author fail to credit her in their paper? If they credited her, but the media failed to give her attention, it's not his fault.
- pbnjay 7y agoYes, they failed to credit her: https://pubmed.gov/13054692 https://pubmed.gov/13054692 In his own book, Watson admitted he had seen her work before publishing his result.
- jrhawley 7y agoIt's been a ongoing conversation for years how Watson and Crick disregarded Franklin's work, with a lot of evidence to support it. Crick also wrote some scathing letters to Watson about how he was being disingenuous in this particular book [0]. [0]: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/SCBBKN.pdf https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/SCBBKN.pdf
- haihaibye 7y agoThey published their papers in the same issue of Nature. This is the standard way of giving credit to both.
- gdy 7y agoBy what metric do you measure her work and the work of Watson and Crick?
- madhadron 7y agoThe fact that she did all of it, and Watson had a friend in the same department she was in let him know when she got her data so he could force his way in and threaten her until she showed it to him, then rush home to publish first? Then spent the rest of his career trash talking her after she died young? My fellow biology grad students when I was in grad school starting in 2005 pretty universally regarded Watson as a waste of oxygen.
- haihaibye 7y agoThis is not an accurate summary of events. The Xray image helped but required spiral maths and modeling. On forgotten people what about Raymond Gosling (Franklin's PhD student) who took the famous photo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51 Watson was shown Gosling's photo by Gosling new supervisor after transferring from under Franklin's supervision.
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- gdy 7y agoNope, he is a man, nothing interesting here.
- gdy 7y agoPlease provide your sources. Referencing your fellow students' ideology driven groupthink doesn't qualify as such.