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No, they rushed to beat Pauling. In a just world Franklin would gotten a co-author credit, but I don't think anyone holds that she was going to have the breakth
by aerostable_slug 11mo ago
No, they rushed to beat Pauling. In a just world Franklin would gotten a co-author credit, but I don't think anyone holds that she was going to have the breakthrough on her own.
- culi 11mo agoShe literally did though. Both their papers were published at the same time too. Her research was finished a little bit later but they both got published in the same issue of the same journal. Hers came later in the pages so it seemed as if her work was simply confirming the work of Watson/Crick