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- Watson consistently portrays Franklin as highly competent but also humorless, self-important, and even aggressive. According to Watson, Franklin refused to cooperate with other scientists and constantly fought with her colleague Maurice Wilkins.
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Jul 28, 2022 · Franklin’s images allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to create their famous two-strand, or double-helix, model. In 1962 Watson (b. 1928), Crick (1916–2004), and Wilkins (1916–2004) jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their 1953 determination of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
Watson consistently portrays Franklin as highly competent but also humorless, self-important, and even aggressive. According to Watson, Franklin refused to cooperate with other scientists and constantly fought with her colleague Maurice Wilkins.
Chargaff's realization that A = T and C = G, combined with some crucially important X-ray crystallography work by English researchers Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, contributed to...
Mar 25, 2024 · Watson’s treatment of Franklin in The Double Helix provoked a robust backlash among those who viewed her as a victim of betrayal, sexism and misogyny, including Franklin’s friend Anne...
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Apr 26, 2023 · Franklin wasn’t the victim of data theft at the hands of James Watson and Francis Crick, say biographers of the famous duo. Instead, she collaborated and shared data with Watson, Crick and ...
Mar 1, 2003 · In The Double Helix, Watson bases his account of Franklin on recollections of their three brief meetings between 1951 and 1953, and on repeated complaints about her from Wilkins. The “Rosy” that Watson describes is a caricature based on the more difficult aspects of Franklin’s personality.
Apr 25, 2023 · Lore has it that the decisive insight for the double helix came when Watson was shown an X-ray image of DNA taken by Franklin — without her permission or knowledge. Known as Photograph 51,...
