Taxacom: Marie Tharp

[John Grehan]

Thanks Jared. I was only referring to the way Franklin was apparently
sidelined in subsequent recognition (all I ever heard about in my
younger university days was Watson & Crick). Don't know enough to comment
on what went on at the time or with respect to treatment by W & C.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 4:37 PM Jared Bernard <bernardj at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> 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 letter and an unpublished news article from the time of the discovery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%7Ccec962e427f2429815e708dbc0637fd2%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315306402383442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yDbgoWEUlGapGcSTxUEpysVPX2V%2Fuu56kOYnydy7faw%3D&reserved=0
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> 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%7Ccec962e427f2429815e708dbc0637fd2%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638315306402383442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PePSS3eYY%2B2EACz5lF4X%2BSbSZ7Vs7Fy0y5x7SWIDePA%3D&reserved=0
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>

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