2010, /observations/rosalind-franklin-and-dna-how-wronged-was-she/.Source: Jewish Women’s Archive. “Rosalind Franklin and DNA: How Wronged Was She?” Scientific American Blog Network, 3 Nov. However, Rosalind Franklin’s part in the discovery of DNA went mostly unnoticed for many years. Today, co-opting someone else’s work in this way would be much more harshly punished. Her photo was a very important piece of evidence, which Watson and Crick played off as their own discovery. The two scientists eventually admitted to the fact that they had seen Franklin’s picture and used the information without giving her credit. They had been attempting to model DNA for months but were only able to figure out the correct structure after seeing Franklin’s image. Multiple witnesses stepped forward saying that other scientists in Franklin’s lab had showed Photo 51 to Watson and Crick without her permission and that seeing the image was what led them to publish their work “discovering” the helix structure. In Watson’s memoir, The Double Helix, he dismissed Franklin’s contributions, but evidence contradictory to his claims eventually came to light. However, after their publication in Science magazine, Watson and Crick were credited with the discovery of this structure. She faced discrimination and was not allowed to enter the common room where her male colleagues met to discuss their work.įranklin’s image, referred to as Photo 51, provided the first proof of the double helix form. Though she was an expert in her field and produced very successful work, her discoveries were often overlooked. She was a specialist in x-ray diffraction, a skill which allowed her to generate the first image of DNA showing the helix form. Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist working at King’s College. Later on people realized there was a very important contributor whose discovery Watson and Crick took credit for. For a long time the credit was given to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins, who won a Nobel prize in for their work in 1962. In the past couple weeks I have received multiple suggestions that I discuss question of who discovered the structure of DNA.
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