The scientific contribution of Rosalynd Franklin is similar to that of Watson and Crick.
- Rosalynd Franklin is one of the best known examples of scientific exclusion. In fact, it's known that James Watson and Francis Crick leveraged Franklin's work, especially the iconic image known as 51, to invent the structure of DNA. However, both researchers did not recognize Franklin and made a mention at the end of the article they published in the journal Nature 70 years ago, clarifying the structure of DNA. Later, although Franklin's investigation has emerged, it has been questioned to what extent he was aware of the meaning of that image. Now, documents from the time show that he understood the structure of DNA as much as Watson and Crick.
These documents have been examined by Matthew Cobb and Nathaniel Comforte. They claim that Franklin was not a “victim” of Watson and Crick, as has been explained so far, but one of the members who discovered the structure of DNA: along with Maurice Wilkins, “it was half the group that articulated the scientific problem, took important steps for a solution, gave decisive data and verified the result.”
The documents that have helped to complete the story are, on the one hand, a writing found in the drafts of journalist Joan Bruce, which contained the statements received to Franklin, and, on the other, a letter written by one of the members of Franklin to Crick. In both cases, it is clear that Franklin understood the structure of DNA.
Cobb and Comfort have explained all of this in Nature and have made it clear that the discovery of the DNA structure was the result of the work of two groups: Franklin and Wilkins did an experimental job and Watson and Crick did a theoretical job. In fact, on April 25, 1953, along with the article by Watson and Crick, Nature published another article by Wilkins and Franklin and their members. Moreover, they note that Franklin was not only against explicit and sexist discrimination, but also against more hidden forms of discrimination, some of which still exist today.
==Death==Franklin died at the age of 77 in 1958 from ovarian cancer. Four years later, Watson, Crick and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for clarifying the structure of DNA.
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