| ▲ | bondarchuk an hour ago |
| 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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| ▲ | gumby 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| The original title was too long and then when I considered how to edit it I realized that the original title was too obscure for anyone not steeped in that particular literature (“photo 51”) |
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| ▲ | kraken_cult 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | ajross 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Is genuine curiosity about scientific history inherently "retconning"? Would you have said that if the dispute was between Watson and some other dude? I mean, yes, there are people who push this attribution because of identity reasons. Rejecting it for the same reasons is at least as bad, no? | | |
| ▲ | kraken_cult 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Sure, and I'm sure there are countless people through history, lab techs, post docs, the scribe of Machiavelli, the person who washed da Vinci's shirts who made contributions - maybe major. Hell, stuff I bring up at work now will somehow make it in to our staff meeting as coming from the CEO when it was a conversation him and I had. The questions is, why, there's clearly an obsession around it. And I honestly doubt if Rosalind Franklin we wouldn't be having the conversation, can you see any indicator to the contrary? |
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| ▲ | burnte an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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). |
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| ▲ | klipt an hour 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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