Comment Re:Rosalind Franklin (Score 1) 33
i also found that program to be surprisingly biased, i had expected nova to be much more objective in its approach to these things.
i _do_ think that franklin was screwed, but by all accounts, she was a bit of a snob herself, and made it very difficult to work with her at an equal level. the program seemed to simply dismiss this as a woman struggling in a mans world, but that doesn't change the facts.
one thing struck me as very interesting. this photo 51 that they talked about, apparently, franklin had had it in her possesion for months before watson ever saw it, but watson and crick (aided by 2 or 3 other major breakthroughs and a co-workers brilliant insight) allowed them to build the model in a matter of weeks, it seems like a bit of credit (at least) should have been conceeded by the program to the two for taking her data and actually doing something with it.
it is a damn shame though. she couldn't have won a part of the nobel, but her name really should be mentioned at the same time as watson and crick whenever referring to the discovery of the double helix, imho.
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i _do_ think that franklin was screwed, but by all accounts, she was a bit of a snob herself, and made it very difficult to work with her at an equal level. the program seemed to simply dismiss this as a woman struggling in a mans world, but that doesn't change the facts.
one thing struck me as very interesting. this photo 51 that they talked about, apparently, franklin had had it in her possesion for months before watson ever saw it, but watson and crick (aided by 2 or 3 other major breakthroughs and a co-workers brilliant insight) allowed them to build the model in a matter of weeks, it seems like a bit of credit (at least) should have been conceeded by the program to the two for taking her data and actually doing something with it.
it is a damn shame though. she couldn't have won a part of the nobel, but her name really should be mentioned at the same time as watson and crick whenever referring to the discovery of the double helix, imho.
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