Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)

I think that even Linus [Pauling], who was quite good, I think, about giving people their due, and making references to people, -- he wrote to Wilkins and asked for these photographs just to see them, and of course Watson and Crick decided not to send them. You see, Linus didn't know that they were Rosalind Franklin's pictures. There was no reason for him to write to Wilkins. I have always been furious about the Watson book, and about the treatment of Rosalind Franklin. Largely because of his treatment of Rosalind Franklin, who I didn't know very well, but had met and talked to in the laboratory, and I was very glad when this Ann Sayre wrote the book, Rosalind Franklin and DNA. Which needed to be written by someone with spirit, saying the things that needed to be said. - Ava Helen Pauling [wife of Linus Pauling] interview with Lee Herzenberg, September 1977

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