Nielsen, Jenny Lorraine: The Null Contribution: What Did Watson and Crick Discover? A Re-examination of the 1953 Nature Paper in Light of Franklin's Notebooks

The Null Contribution: What Did Watson and Crick Discover? J. L. Nielsen Watson and Crick's 1953 Nature paper on the structure of DNA is 842 words long, reports no experiments, and presents no original data. This paper demonstrates that it contains no original conclusions. A systematic comparison of every structural claim in the Watson–Crick paper against the documented contents of Rosalind Franklin's laboratory notebooks (Churchill Archives Centre, FRKN; analyzed by Klug 2004, Elkin 2003, Comfo