The Francis Crick Papers

Title:

Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick

Description:

Markham here joined others in criticizing what she considered misleading statements Crick had made in his essay, "How to Live with a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9), regarding Rosalind Franklin's approach to science, namely that her alleged rigidity of character, a result of her upbringing, made her overly concerned with producing definitive experimental evidence before drawing conclusions, and unwilling to trust intuition. Even though Crick became a friend of Franklin's during the last five years of her life, he often struggled 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 (123,113 Bytes)

Date:

1979-09-12 (September 12, 1979)

Creator:

Markham, Margaret

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:

Courtesy of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

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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 Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick (September 11, 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)

Box Number: 23

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

Unique Identifier:

SCBBQC

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:

2004-10-26

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