Comment by philipallstar
3 days ago
> Science historian Alistair Sponsel of the Science History Institute and crystallographer Brian Sutton of KCL argue Franklin knew the earlier photo had revealed a helix—the epiphany Watson claimed for himself—and that is precisely why she made a second, more refined version, photograph 51.
It was Watson and Crick who discovered the double helix, even if Franklin did write something down about a single helix from a previous photo that they didn't read.
Yes and I believe these two people who have been shown to be bastions of moral caliber.
One can be a total asshole and be right.
So she must have discovered it before them because their decades later, totally unrelated opinions are bad? I don't understand your point.