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Would you say the same of Watson-Crick/Pauling and Watson-Crick/Candlin? One was pure rivalry. The other was (to my mind) just a dick move. Fred Hoyle famousl
by ggm 2y ago
Would you say the same of Watson-Crick/Pauling and Watson-Crick/Candlin? One was pure rivalry. The other was (to my mind) just a dick move.
Fred Hoyle famously had feuds. A lot of the Astro community couldn't work with him. I think it even extended to his grad students. He was an amazing educator and got side-tracked into bizarre theories which every now and then turn out to have a germ of truth (you could say that about extra-terrestrial sources of life in regard to precursor chemicals in the asteroid belt)
Hoyle and Martin Ryle for instance.
- Metacelsus 2y agoI don't think Watson/Crick vs. Pauling rose to the same level of animosity as this did. I'm not familiar with "Candlin", who was he/she? Or did you mean Franklin? I think Newton vs. Leibniz would be a good comparison for the rivalry described in The Nobel Duel.