The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person's lab." In this passage, Watson lets his feelings of Rosy as a person, effect his views of her as a scientist. He thinks very highly of Maurice as a physicist and that may even cause him to be non-objective in his views of her, which seemingly discredits him as an author and scientist throughout the book. He also takes into account Rosy's clothing and appearance, as well as her lack of a social life and makes personal judgements on her reffering to her as a "feminist." In a way, I think Watson is confusing sexuality with science. .
"Rosy by then was hardly able to control her temper, and her voice rose as she told me that the stupidity of my remarks would be obvious if I would stop blubbering and look and her X-ray evidence. I was more aware of her data than she realized. Several months earlier Maurice had told me that nature of her so-called antihelical results. Since Francis has assured me tat there were a red herring, I decided to risk a full explosion. Without further hesitation I implied that she imcompetent in interperting X-ray pictures. If only she would learn some theory, she would understand how her supposed antihelical features arose from the minor distortions needed to pack regular helices into a crystalline latice.".
Rosy was the person that influenced Watson to become knowledgeable in crystallographical arguement, because he wanted to follow along with a lecture she was presenting. He may not have agreed with her course of action or with her reliance on hard data and not theory, but that does not lessen the effect she had on his work. Crick and Watson to come to their final conclusion used much of Rosy's research and X-rays. The data and facts that she collected enabled them to build their models and shape their theory, which finally had to be corroborated by Rosy. Aaron Klug, the last student of Rosy's writes, "Rosylind Franklin made crucial contributions to the solution of the structrure of DNA.