Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Markham, Margaret Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Publication:
- Produced: 12 September 1979
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Crystallography, X-Ray DNA
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- Markham here joined others in criticizing what she considered misleading statements Crick had made in his essay, "How to Live with a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9), regarding Rosalind Franklin's approach to science, namely that her alleged rigidity of character, a result of her upbringing, made her overly concerned with producing definitive experimental evidence before drawing conclusions, and unwilling to trust intuition. Even though Crick became a friend of Franklin's during the last five years of her life, he often struggled to fully assess her role in the discovery of the DNA double helix. He and Watson had relied on her experimental evidence in their discovery, but had done so without her knowledge and without giving her full credit in their first published accounts of the DNA structure.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X228 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBQC
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X228
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)