It has lengthy been rumored that James Watson and Francis Crick hit on the double helix construction of DNA “solely after stealing knowledge from Rosalind Franklin, a bodily chemist working at King’s School London.” However is that what actually occurred? Two science writers, one writing on Watson and one writing on Crick, have discovered the reply to this science thriller. Right here’s extra from Nature:
…we visited Franklin’s archive at Churchill School in Cambridge, UK, and went by means of her notes collectively, reconstructing the event of her concepts. We additionally discovered a hitherto unstudied draft information article from 1953, written in session with Franklin and meant for Time, a US journal with worldwide attain — in addition to an neglected letter from one in every of Franklin’s colleagues to Crick. Collectively, these paperwork counsel a unique account of the invention of the double helix. Franklin didn’t fail to know the construction of DNA. She was an equal contributor to fixing it.
Getting Franklin’s story proper is essential, as a result of she has develop into a job mannequin for ladies going into science. She was up towards not simply the routine sexism of the day, but in addition extra refined kinds embedded in science — a few of that are nonetheless current at the moment.
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