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jhistbiol.bsky.social @jhistbiol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Important new piece in JHB: Rosalind Franklin and the REAL story behind her famous X-ray Photo 51 (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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jhistbiol.bsky.social @jhistbiol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JHB’ 2025 Special Issue on Asilomar (link.springer.com/collections/...) mentioned in a NY Times piece today (www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...)!
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Special Issue on Legacies of Asilomar
The Special Issue on Legacies of Asilomar features invited essays that reflect on and reinterpret the 1975 International Conference on Recombinant DNA ...
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jhistbiol.bsky.social @jhistbiol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Why “history of knowledge” is never as satisfactory as history of science (for analyzing biology): see what Hans Joerg Rheinberger says about in the latest JHB link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Out of Step? Reflections on Writing the History of Molecular Biology - Journal of the History of Biology
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