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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.
“Dick, this guy must be either very smart or very lucky. He constantly claims he knew less about what was going on than anyone else in the field, but he still made the crucial discovery.” Rosalind Franklin would probably disagree.
Crick's mathematical breakthrough to calculate the helix twist and playing around with molecular models was also necessary.
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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…
Referencing your fellow students' ideology driven groupthink doesn't qualify as such.
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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…
This is not an accurate summary of events. The Xray image helped but required spiral maths and modeling. 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.
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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…
This is not an accurate summary of events. The Xray image helped but required spiral maths and modeling. 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.
The "follow your own path" mantra is particularly important at the edge of human knowledge where established theories break down. As a physicist, I was personally surprised how much people blindly trust theoretical tools well outside their domain of original application. Even when the data is yelling at you "no that's wrong", people commonly persist because they read it in a book or heard it from a more senior professor. I believe this is the group think that Feynman was getting at.
This feels like the sort of advice that increases the variance of outcomes more than the mean , if that makes any sense. It'll help some people, but also really won't help others. It's like... You'd need some serious disregard for the rest of the physics community to think you can figure out a reactionless drive. This is great if you actually can, but otherwise it's going to lead you to failure. In a lot of ways, get…
Obviously when the same approach went someone to a spectacular ruin, that someone is an obvious crackpot who insisted on a wrong thing despite everyone's opinion. It's not worth a story, so nobody mentions these losers.