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Fortunately, Crick was on good terms with Wilkins, the man whose DNA images had originally sparked Watson's interest. Unfortunately, Wilkins was on very bad terms with his King's College colleague, the accomplished but prickly Rosalind Franklin. At 31, she was already one of the world's most talented crystallographers and had recently returned to her home country to take a position at King's after a stint at a prestigious Paris...
...Watson and Wilkins attend a seminar by Rosalind Franklin. Watson fails to remembers correctly key data about the water content...
...Rosalind Franklin? The story of her life is short, tragically so, but it doesn't lack for tellers. Was she difficult Rosy, the Cruella De Vil of The Double Helix, who nearly knocked Watson's block off? Was she Dr. R.E. Franklin, the humble supporting player whom Watson and Crick thanked in the second-to-last sentence of their famous article in Nature? Or was she Franklin the feminist icon, the tormented genius who was cheated out of biochemistry's ultimate prize...
...dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared a Nobel with Watson and Crick. As for the pairing of their names, Watson said that...
This was true for Mario Grigorov, 39, whose wife Rosalind left him after five years. English was Rosalind's native tongue, so sometimes she had acted as a social intermediary for Mario, who was born in Bulgaria. After the split, "my wife's college friends became her support group, and I was left with no friends," he says. Most of the couple's joint friends stayed away, so Mario had to start over: "My first new friends were really dysfunctional; none of us had any idea how to be in a relationship," he says. But after he remarried, some...