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Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
Did Watson and his co-author fail to credit her in their paper? If they credited her, but the media failed to give her attention, it's not his fault.
In his own book, Watson admitted he had seen her work before publishing his result.
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Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
Did Watson and his co-author fail to credit her in their paper? If they credited her, but the media failed to give her attention, it's not his fault.
Crick also wrote some scathing letters to Watson about how he was being disingenuous in this particular book [0].
It is subtle that he didn't just dismiss others, per se. He specifically disregarded what they were working on. If he was brought in to consult or help, he was now working on it so would help. That is, he did not dismiss people. Or problems brought to him. He just did not worry about reinventing wheels. Odds are, other people are working on something and have made really smart contributions. Don't worry about that. T…
> He just did not worry about reinventing wheels. That is what annoys the fuck out of me with the software community. We actually reinvent constantly but everyone praises that we never should do it. It feels like a secret master plan of a hidden lobby that want to claim novelty and creativity for themselves.
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Care to elaborate? Specifically, is there any doubt about Watson's contribution to the discovery of the double helix structure?
Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
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In fields like art, programming, and physics, you'd better be doing something weird . If you're doing something mainstream , the same thing thirty other people around the world are doing, you're all competing to make the same thing — paint the same painting, write the same text editor, prove the same theorem about black holes. Twenty-nine of you are going to get scooped by whoever is the hardest-working, the smartest…
When does weird become too weird? I’m building a non-instant messenger, for example.
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But #3 is a reality that slowly blossoms, not something you're born into as a young person. We are also all judging each other to different degrees, and some of these judgments do matter.
I feel like the advice "stop caring about what people think" is pretty useless for a lot of people. Really, how much you care about what other people think depends on what phase of life you're in. In your adolescence, your social survival and who you get to date largely depends on the opinions of others. When you hit your 30s, usually you have your own family and your own tribe, and other people just don't matter so…
Not caring about what other people think is truly freeing. The other important ting to realize is people just don't care most of the time.
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Well since Rosalind Franklin did the majority of the work, yes.
By what metric do you measure her work and the work of Watson and Crick?
My fellow biology grad students when I was in grad school starting in 2005 pretty universally regarded Watson as a waste of oxygen.
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By what metric do you measure her work and the work of Watson and Crick?
The fact that she did all of it, and Watson had a friend in the same department she was in let him know when she got her data so he could force his way in and threaten her until she showed it to him, then rush home to publish first? Then spent the rest of his career trash talking her after she died young? My fellow biology grad students when I was in grad school starting in 2005 pretty universally regarded Watson as…
On forgotten people what about Raymond Gosling (Franklin's PhD student) who took the famous photo:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_51
Watson was shown Gosling's photo by Gosling new supervisor after transferring from under Franklin's supervision.