Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first

bondarchuk 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

So did Franklin provably realize the double-helix structure of DNA first or not? A lot of beating about the bush here but the article stops just short of actually explicitly making the claim it's working so hard to imply, AFAICT...

(edit: should note the HN submission title (at present "Despite what Watson said, Rosalind Franklin understood structure of DNA first") does not actually occur in TFA)

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burnte 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

She totally did. She was the crystallography expert, she understood the meaning of the results immediately. She died and had no one to defend her so W&C were left with the credit, as was normal in the 50s and 60s (and 70s, 80s, 90s, etc).

	▲	klipt 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Discrimination against the dead strikes again. Well, the dead are tired of taking this lying down. Time for the dead to rise up!

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howunfortunate 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered

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ChrisArchitect an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969073

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antonvs 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

No-one should take Watson seriously. He exploited institutional sexism, systemic minimization, and unequal credit distribution to aggrandize his own contribution. It's a good example of why efforts like "DEI" are important - because if you leave things to people in a position of privilege, you get a completely distorted picture.