To the editor:<\/p>\n
It never ceases to irritate me to read an article about scientists James Watson and Francis Cricks discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. (Todays Highlight in History, The Sun Chronicle, Page A8)<\/p>\n
Well, here is the real deal.<\/p>\n
British scientist Rosalind Franklin brilliantly produced an X-ray of the molecular structure of DNA, using X-ray crystallography. At this point Watson and Crick hadnt a clue to its structure.<\/p>\n
A sneaky male colleague in Franklins lab provided Watson and Crick a look-see at the DNA photo #51 and her unpublished data. Did she know? History says, not likely.<\/p>\n
As a result, Watson and Crick published a paper regarding this info in 1953. Eventually, Watson and Crick and another scientist, Maurice Wilkins, shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for describing DNAs double-helix structure.<\/p>\n
Franklin died in 1958, making her ineligible for a Nobel Prize. Watson and Crick got the credit.<\/p>\n
Gail Boone<\/p>\n
Wrentham<\/p>\n
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