Rosalind Franklin is often portrayed as a victim whose work was stolen – but several accounts suggest she was relaxed about her findings being shared with Francis Crick and James Watson
. They say an overlooked letter and a draft magazine article add to the evidence that the popular view of Franklin’s role is wrong.at the University of Manchester, UK. “That’s not right.”
More important to the discovery than Photo 51 was a Medical Research Council report that included a page from Franklin on her work. This was Bruce portrays a collaborative effort. She writes that although Wilkins and Franklin worked independently from Crick and Watson, “they linked up, confirming each other’s work from time to time, or wrestling over a common problem”. It isn’t clear whose version of the story this is, but the fact that Bruce sent the draft to Franklin for checking suggests that Franklin had talked or corresponded with Bruce.
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