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Did 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.
by emiliobumachar 7y ago
Did 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.