Author of ‘Rosalind: DNA’s Invisible Woman’. Longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize 2020. Mama (to a next-gen intersectional feminist/militant veggie).
Apr 28, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
This week, researchers Matthew Cobb and Nathaniel Comfort claimed new 'evidence' shows Rosalind Franklin was an equal collaborator in the double helix and that she was comfortable with her data being shared with Nobel winners James Watson and Francis Crick.
The researchers cited a letter from a student in Franklin's lab that a supposedly invited Francis Crick to her lecture, citing it as 'evidence' that she was aware and indeed ‘relaxed’ about her data being used by competing laboratories.