James Watson, Francis Crick on Rosalind Franklin, each other, and scientists (quotes)

[KuriousKatKommittee]

James Watson's The Double Helix excerpt:

"I suspect that in the beginning Maurice hoped that Rosy* would calm down. Yet mere inspection suggested that she would not easily bend. By choice she did not emphasize her feminine qualities. 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. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men."
*[Franklin]

Dailyfail excerpt:

Watson says he thought Franklin had Asperger's syndrome and was 'paranoid'. He continued: 'I don't think her name deserved to be on the paper... because of her failure to interact effectively, it was hard to know how bright she was.' He spoke to an audience at the Collège de France in Paris and said: 'There was no reason to give her the Nobel prize. She was a loser.' Watson called Crick 'a bit autistic'.

Welcome to science.

[JamesBond007]

Good post : I enjoyed it.