Letter from Francis Crick to the Editor of The Sciences
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Sciences Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Publication:
- Produced: 2 October 1979
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Crystallography, X-Ray DNA
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- As this short note illustrates, Crick and Watson have struggled on several occasions over the course of their careers to fully assess the contribution to the exposition of the DNA double helix made by Rosalind Franklin, on whose experimental evidence they relied without her knowledge. Even here, Crick cited the words of Aaron Klug, Franklin's former collaborator, rather than use his own words, to clarify a potentially misleading statement Crick had made about Franklin's approach to science in in his retrospective, "How to Live With a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9).
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X225 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBPY
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X225
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)