The Francis Crick Papers

Title:

Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick

Description:

Friend here criticized a potentially misleading statement Crick had made in his retrospective, "How to Live with a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9), about Rosalind Franklin's approach to science, namely that she was overly concerned with producing definitive experimental evidence before drawing conclusions. Even though Crick became a friend of Franklin's during the last five years of her life, he found it difficult 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.

Item is a photocopy.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (67,978 Bytes)

Date:

1979-09-11 (September 11, 1979)

Creator:

Friend, Charlotte

Recipient:

Crick, Francis

Source:

Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Archives.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Crystallography, X-Ray; DNA

Exhibit Categories:

Biographical Information

The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953

Relation:

How to Live with a Golden Helix (September 1979)

Letter from Francis Crick to the Editor of The Sciences (October 2, 1979)

Letter from Charlotte Friend to the Editor of The Sciences (December 1979)

Letter from Francis Crick to Charlotte Friend (September 18, 1979)

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick (September 18, 1979)

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick (October 9, 1979)

Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick (September 12, 1979)

Box Number: 23

Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/2/18

Unique Identifier:

SCBBQB

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Correspondence

SubSeries: Individual Correspondents

Folder: Correspondence with Aaron Klug

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-10-22

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