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maire | 2 years ago

Here is a 2003 documentary on the same subject.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/rosalind-franklin-lega...

My take away was that Rosalind Franklin did support the Watson Crick paper but that there was some conflict leading up to the paper. She did not seem to think her ideas were stolen.

It did not help that after Franklin died - Watson wrote a hit piece on Franklin. I think that is what caused people to question if Watson was above board while Franklin was alive.

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selimthegrim|2 years ago

My recollection is there were also some ethnically prejudiced remarks about Jews not being able to visualize in 3D or something along those lines