Taxacom: Marie Tharp

[Jared Bernard]

Thanks for all the info about Marie Tharp, Tony & John. Very enlightening.

Not to make it a big deal, but I couldn't help but notice the "double helix
scam" remark. I too am a fan of the 1987 movie starring Jeff Goldblum
("Race for the Double Helix"), but I recently saw this from Nature Podcast:

"An oft-repeated version of crystallographer Rosalind Franklin’s role in
the discovery of the DNA double helix says that she was cheated out of an
X-ray diffraction image that proved the key to unlocking DNA’s structure.
But this story of the ‘wronged heroine’ “does a disservice to Franklin”,
medical historian Nathaniel Comfort tells the Nature Podcast. An overlooked
letter and an unpublished news article from the time of the discovery
suggest that she was equally involved in the process. “She was a super
dedicated, driven, passionate woman,” says neuroscientist Hannah Franklin,
who is Rosalind’s great-niece."

Here's the link to the podcast: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1038%2Fd41586-023-01443-w&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C678dcce74b454429ffed08dbc062cd61%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315303141825009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kQxDqvVna6IVcgtw49mPigh6xkXfetD5Pr1QruIB0Cg%3D&reserved=0

And here you can see that her work immediately followed Watson and Crick's
in the same journal issue:
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mskcc.org%2Fteaser%2F1953-nature-papers-watson-crick-wilkins-franklin.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C678dcce74b454429ffed08dbc062cd61%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315303141825009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4fu%2FBdl54NbH1DdSoIgb4UnU6CibNmJFUCYhD0Wgyp0%3D&reserved=0