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The political narrative: "Rosalind Franklin's story involves intellectual property theft, sexism, and deceit, and the struggle of a woman scientist to be accepted in the male-dominated scientific community of the 1950s."
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Crick and Watson did not steal Franklin’s data
https://nautil.us/crick-and-watson-did-n...a-1252663/
EXCERPTS: Interviews with Crick from the 1960s and a close reading of the Watson and Crick research papers show that the actual process of making the breakthrough did not involve using any of Franklin’s data. Instead, the pair spent a month fiddling about with cardboard shapes corresponding to the component molecules of DNA, using the basic rules of chemistry. Once they had finally, almost by accident, made the discovery, then they could see that it corresponded to Franklin’s data. Franklin was not hostile to the pair—she continued to share her data and ideas with both men and subsequently became very close friends with Crick and his wife, Odile. (MORE - details)
ALSO (2023): Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved.
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Crick and Watson did not steal Franklin’s data
https://nautil.us/crick-and-watson-did-n...a-1252663/
EXCERPTS: Interviews with Crick from the 1960s and a close reading of the Watson and Crick research papers show that the actual process of making the breakthrough did not involve using any of Franklin’s data. Instead, the pair spent a month fiddling about with cardboard shapes corresponding to the component molecules of DNA, using the basic rules of chemistry. Once they had finally, almost by accident, made the discovery, then they could see that it corresponded to Franklin’s data. Franklin was not hostile to the pair—she continued to share her data and ideas with both men and subsequently became very close friends with Crick and his wife, Odile. (MORE - details)
ALSO (2023): Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved.