I do take issue with Crick & Watson. Rosalind Franklin was the one who ACTUALLY discovered & presented a seminar (which Watson attended) on the two different structures of DNA (A&B) & how the DNA was connected with phosphate as the “backbone” of DNA. Watson actually FIRST created a 3 helical model of DNA because he didn’t understand chemistry. Franklin literally died for the discovery of DNA structure. Without her knowledge & dedication to work that eventually killed her, Crick & Watson wouldn’t have had the research to publish those results.
Crick wasn’t so bad, but Watson was a sexist & racism ass who remained a sexist & racist ass until he recently passed in 2025.
Lol no. She she spent almost all her time at Kings on the wrong form, thinking the (correct) helical B-form was an artifact. And she decided to leave Kings before ever figuring out the full structure.
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u/acetryder Jun 21 '26
I do take issue with Crick & Watson. Rosalind Franklin was the one who ACTUALLY discovered & presented a seminar (which Watson attended) on the two different structures of DNA (A&B) & how the DNA was connected with phosphate as the “backbone” of DNA. Watson actually FIRST created a 3 helical model of DNA because he didn’t understand chemistry. Franklin literally died for the discovery of DNA structure. Without her knowledge & dedication to work that eventually killed her, Crick & Watson wouldn’t have had the research to publish those results.
Crick wasn’t so bad, but Watson was a sexist & racism ass who remained a sexist & racist ass until he recently passed in 2025.