Watson became popular and made a career of offending groups and categories of people, as well as individuals for his own advantage. It seems that finally, someone did what should have been done in the early 1950's....they called him out.

James Watson has always been a self-promoter who was not above stealing Rosalind Franklin's work when she made xrays of DNA and discovered the helical nature of DNA. He discusses this in his early autobiography, as well as insulting both Crick and Rosalind Franklin's research partner, Maurice Wilkins.

While Wilkins, Crick, and Watson shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery, Rosalind Franklin was dead from radiation poisoning, or she would have called hi...

Watson became popular and made a career of offending groups and categories of people, as well as individuals for his own advantage. It seems that finally, someone did what should have been done in the early 1950's....they called him out.

James Watson has always been a self-promoter who was not above stealing Rosalind Franklin's work when she made xrays of DNA and discovered the helical nature of DNA. He discusses this in his early autobiography, as well as insulting both Crick and Rosalind Franklin's research partner, Maurice Wilkins.

While Wilkins, Crick, and Watson shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery, Rosalind Franklin was dead from radiation poisoning, or she would have called him out for taking her research without properly crediting her.

Of course, Watson has his supporters. They don't even want to hear about Rosalind Franklin, but how did her research partner Maurice Wilkins end up sharing the Nobel Prize with Crick and Watson, if it weren't for her xrays and their work together?