NATS 1775 Lecture 14: Unit 14 - Historical Controversies of Genetic Research
25 Jan 2019
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Discovering the structure of dna: the double helix. Discovering structure of dna was top priority for many scientists after wwii. Story related to theme of gender and science. Among the major players working on dna structure was the pairing of rosalind. Franklin (1920-58) and maurice wilkins who worked at kings college at the university of london. Franklin: analyzed dna using x-ray crystallography; produced a number of very good images of a and b form which could be used to determine dna structure. Franklin had difficult time working with wilkins; treated her more like a technician than scientist and was under assumption franklin would be his assistant instead of partner. Franklin also excluded from many formal and informal scientific networks such as male only dining or smoking lounges. At same time, francis crick and james watson also working on dna at cambridge. Crick was physicist working on phd in biophysics and watson was phage geneticist.
