Friday, February 28, 2003

  Today is DOUBLE HELIX DAY
About that last post-- Here is the article I was trying to link. Check it out. Bummer, huh? If Rosalind Franklin had not contracted cancer from all her hours spent with x-rays, she could have been a contender for the Nobel Prize given to Crick, Watson and Wilkins after her death (it's not awarded posthumously). She would have had to fight Wilkins for it, though, since no more than three people can share the prize.

And this Wilkins guy, who everyone is talking about and praising today for being oh-so intelligent and driven, had this to say about Ms. Watson in his book about the discovery:

"Though her features were strong, she was not unattractive and might have been quite stunning had she taken even a mild interest in clothes. This she did not. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents."

What do her "features" or clothing have to do with anything? Would he waste ink making the same observations about Einstein? Did Watson ever look in the mirror? He wasn't exactly fashion-savvy himself. Oops. . .am I ranting? Sorry. . .

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