Malcolm McLean
10/10/2013 12:58:00 PM
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 11:46:07 PM UTC+1, Giborah wrote:
>
> Watson's book "The Double Helix" contains some truly juvenile, snot-nose,
> disgusting passages about Rosalind Franklin, who was such a lady that
> even from her grave she probably would have kept her British manners.
>
He knew her, you and I didn't.
The Nobel prize cannot be awarded posthumously, which is a reasonable rule,
and it can't be awarded to more than three people, which is another reasonable
rule. Since Rosalind Franklin died before the award, the question of whether
she should have been included didn't arise. However she managed to fool
herself that her images weren't showing a characteristic helical pattern,
when her supervisor knew full well that they did. It certainly wasn't a case
of the discovery being stolen from her. There were some personal animosities,
but in the nature of things it's hard to judge who was a fault, and
really a pretty pointless exercise.