Franklin's assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory's second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the time, and when he returned, their relationship was muddled.

In fact, if things had worked out slightly differently, the famous pair of Watson and Crick could have been the famous pair of Wilkins and Franklin. His education. Maurice Wilkins was born in ...

THE Harvard University Press and Mr. Cohen have performed a very useful service in making Franklin's “Experiments and Observations” accessible in this convenient form. Mr. Cohen has written an ...