Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick

Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick

Contributor(s):
Friend, Charlotte
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Publication:
Produced: 11 September 1979
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Crystallography, X-Ray
DNA
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Friend here criticized a potentially misleading statement Crick had made in his retrospective, "How to Live with a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9), about Rosalind Franklin's approach to science, namely that she was overly concerned with producing definitive experimental evidence before drawing conclusions. Even though Crick became a friend of Franklin's during the last five years of her life, he found it difficult to fully assess her role in the discovery of the DNA double helix. He and Watson had relied on her experimental evidence in their discovery, but had done so without her knowledge and without giving her full credit in their first published accounts of the DNA structure.
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Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X227 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBQB
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X227
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)