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Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery
Franklin’s strategy for analyzing images of DNA molecules forces us to reconsider our definition of “scientific discovery,” argues Michelle G. Gibbons.
In 1962, four years after Franklin’s death, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the famous double helix. “Rosalind Franklin’s research strategy was to avoid exactly the sort of speculation that Watson and Crick freely engaged in,” Gibbons writes. In contrast, Franklin’s story reveals a model of scientific discovery that “involves many people, each contributing some, often small part to the process.”
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