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The Structure Of DNA In James Watson's The Double Helix
The race to find the structure of DNA was on. James Watson and Francis Crick model builders were working on finding out the structure of DNA first. I Rosalind Franklin a crystallographer am also working on finding the structure of DNA. But before I could officially identify the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick were successful. Now James Watson is writing a book about DNA, and I am told to give some feedback about it. I will be telling you about what I think about James Watson’s book, The Double Helix. I will be expressing what I think about his book with my feelings of the book, my reaction to Watson and Crick using my data, and how I would address this situation.
The Double Helix, it’s a good book, but some of the references that James Watson pins on me are wrong and rude. In the book James Watson portrays me as a uncooperative, unatractive, and incompetent. If you ask me I think I know how to do my job pretty good. He should not just be able to write about someone and completely lie about them, that just does not make any sense. I think that he never should publish the book, I mean especially if some of his friends are strongly disagreeing with the book then he should not publish it. I read that Watson and Crick used my data, I am
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I mean without my data they were nowhere, without my data they never would have gotten close to finding the structure. I believe that I deserve credit, but I don’t think that it would happen because the book is already published and some of the things that Watson says about me would make people think that I deserve not to get any credit for the discovery. So I am not trying to right the situation here because I think that people will think that I do not deserve it and if I didn’t get any credit yet because Watson mentions that him and Crick took my data, then I don’t think I will ever get

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