![]() ![]() “I think never thought of Rosalind as a serious competitor of their level,” Markel said. “It would have been very hard for them,” he explained – though the pair themselves believed that “Rosalind would have figured it out in a few weeks.”ĭespite this – or perhaps because of it – there followed a “very extensive campaign” to cover up just how fundamental Franklin’s contribution to the discovery truly was, the story goes. ![]() Without Frankin’s data, he said, Crick and Watson “absolutely would not” have figured out the structure of DNA. ![]() “The reality is, is that, if life was fair, which it's not, it would be called the Watson-Crick-Franklin model,” Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and author of The Secret Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix, told PBS in 2021. ![]() Suddenly, she was not a passive participant in the discovery of the structure of DNA, but a maligned feminist icon, whose work and proper recognition had been stolen out of disdain for her gender. “The thought could not be avoided,” he concluded, “that the best home for a feminist was in another person’s lab.”Ĭombined with Watson’s portrayal of Photo 51 as the eureka moment of the discovery, Franklin’s reputation was transformed. ![]()
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