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Should she stay in France or return home to England? She asked the advice of Dorothy Hodgkin, a renowned crystallographer and one of only ten women to win a Nobel Prize. And she left reluctantly. She was not very happy to leave Paris. I think that the decision she had to make I think it was, to some extent, a cruel one. She is hired by J. Randall, the director of the biophysics labs, to create an X-ray diffraction unit to investigate the structure of proteins.
She accepts the offer, but writes to a friend, "To change the banks of the Seine for a cellar on the Strand seems to me quite insane. But as she is leaving Paris, she receives a letter from Randall, shifting her focus from proteins to the little understood substance, called DNA. Rosalind Franklin is 30 years old as she unwittingly enters an undeclared race to unravel the secret of life.
It's really beautiful and amazing stuff. It's responsible for heredity; it's the genetic material. Some would argue that it's the blueprint for every cell in your body. The harmless strain turned virulent, strongly suggesting a link between DNA and heredity. But that conclusion was by no means universally accepted. It also appeared to have just four other chemical ingredients, called bases.
But how could such a simple molecule be responsible for the diversity of all life on Earth? Some believed that discovering the structure of DNA would lead to an answer. We had to walk around the bomb crater and in here to the main hall of the college.
Now, our physics department was down that end of this corridor. Right at the end was the lab that Rosalind and I did the X-ray diffraction in. Yes, yes, now this is quite close to what it was actually like. This is about the size of the room, and as you see it's right in the basement, so that gives you a sort of taste to the bowels-of-the-earth type of environment in which the early work was done.
He had to improvise at every step to cope with the lab's antiquated technology. And he thought for a bit, then took a condom out of his pocket and said, "Here you are, my boy. Poke the collimator through that. And all that she told us about it was almost incredible. I mean, the fact that they had a common room, a lunch place, which was forbidden to women, I mean it sounded unheard I mean it was absurd to us. It was not the kind of life you would like to have anywhere, to be forbidden a place because you are a dog, a woman or a Jew.
At the time of her arrival, Wilkins was on holiday. While he was gone, his Ph. When Wilkins returned, he walked into a vastly improved lab, but it wasn't his anymore.
He lost his lab and his Ph. And Rosalind Franklin, whom he thought was going to be his assistant, turned out to be better trained and already working independently. When he checked in on her progress, he was rebuffed. What the hell is she on about? So, we had a very stressful aspect, which did not help the joint work in our laboratory, as a result. After her death, he studied her notebooks and letters, including the one from Randall. And that fact, and the fact that Wilkins was not present when Franklin arrived at King's College in January, , led to a great deal of dissension later on.
And that was a misunderstanding. And the responsibility of that misunderstanding lies in Randall's hands. Perhaps Maurice Wilkins could live with that kind of ambiguous situation more easily than Rosalind would. She didn't like that kind of unclear situation. Franklin—articulate, passionate and always up for a good debate—and Wilkins—soft-spoken, deliberate and shy—just couldn't get along.
And if she had been a man, it would have gone totally unremarked. I mean, I know for a fact that at one stage, I think, she was going out with the first violin of the London Philharmonic. Now that is a cut above the beer-drinking chaps like us who were sitting in Finch's. And so to that extent She didn't suffer fools gladly, she was very intelligent, and she desperately wanted to get on with this work.
She was so convinced that it was there like a ripe plum to be plucked from the tree. But now a new player was about to enter the game. This was going to be the secret of life.
Watson tries to meet Wilkins and wrangle an invitation to work at King's College. His English And so I left and sort of the vague feeling that it would be nice if I could work with Maurice. But it wasn't the sort of obvious coming together of like minds.
There, Watson is assigned an office with another physicist turned crystallographer, Francis Crick, an old friend of Wilkins'. Crick and Watson immediately click. But an hour away at King's College, the negative atmosphere takes a new turn for the worse. She provoked this sort of thing. Oh, poor Rosy, what a joke, silly joke.
She had a good camera because she developed a good camera. She got superb pictures, the best in those days. It would be sort of like if you had a picture of Mickey Mouse superimposed on a picture of Donald Duck.
It would be almost impossible to understand what either Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck looked like. The B is wetter and how DNA occurs in living cells. It produces a simpler image, but reveals a key clue to solving the structure of DNA. The X shape in the middle is the diffraction signature of a helix. The significance is not lost on Franklin.
She notes it in scientific shorthand and, according to Klug, presents her discovery. She concentrated mostly on the A form. It was quite clear. But she was concentrating upon the A form because of the greater wealth of information you could get from it.
That was her analytical approach. Crick and Watson are planning to use a different approach to solving the structure of DNA: model-building. And she never took prisoners anyway, so she was pretty sharp in her criticism of the model and explained in detail why it couldn't be correct: one, two, three. And then we left. He missed that entirely, and he found himself really just preoccupied with her looks.
Why didn't she wear lipstick? She might have been pretty, if she had taken off her glasses and done something interesting with her hair. And here they were, the model builders, hard at it, and they had produced completely the wrong model.
But what Franklin may not know, is that her unpublished findings will continue to make their way to Watson and Crick. And they are getting there through the deputy director of her own lab, Maurice Wilkins. So he began going up to Cambridge to talk to his old friend—and he was an old friend—Francis Crick about DNA, which he was still interested in, and about this terrible Rosy who was hoarding, he felt, her data.
So inadvertently, Wilkins was the conduit. A lot of information from Rosalind and from King's actually passed its way to Cambridge, so that even if Watson and Crick were not officially working on DNA, they were speculating. Today, X-ray diffraction technology, vastly improved, is still used to explore molecular structure.
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