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Fatefully, such amity did not prevail at a laboratory over at King's College, London, where a woman named Rosalind Franklin was creating the world's best X-ray diffraction pictures of DNA. Maurice Wilkins, a colleague who was also working on DNA, disliked the precociously feminist Franklin, and the feeling was mutual. By Watson's account, this estrangement led Wilkins to show Watson one of Franklin's best pictures yet, which hadn't been published. "The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open," Watson recalled. The sneak preview "gave several of the vital helical parameters...
...Horace Freeland Judson observed in The Eighth Day of Creation, this sort of synergy is, above all, what Rosalind Franklin lacked. Working in a largely male field in an age when women weren't allowed in the faculty coffee room, she had no one to bond with--no supportive critic whose knowledge matched her gaps, whose gaps her knowledge matched...
...British chemist Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photographs of DNA show that the molecule has a helical structure...
...Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to thereporting of this story...
Author and Clinical psychologist Rosalind Barnett presents a talk on "Reduced Hours Work: Good/Bad for Quality of Life." Murray Research Center in Radcliffe Yard. 12 p.m. FREE...