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Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick
- Title:
- Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick
- Creator:
- Markham, Margaret
- Recipient:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Date:
- 12 September 1979
- 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.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 23. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/18
- Rights:
- Courtesy of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
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- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Crystallography, X-Ray and DNA
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- How to Live with a Golden Helix, 1979 Letter from Francis Crick to the Editor of The Sciences, 1979 Letter from Charlotte Friend to the Editor of The Sciences, 1979 Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick, 1979 Letter from Francis Crick to Charlotte Friend, 1979 Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick, 1979 Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick, 1979
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Legacy ID:
- SCBBQC
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X228
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X228
- Story Section:
- The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953