Rosalind Franklin was a biophysicist and X-Ray crystallographer, working on King's College, whose experimental work was crucial for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA by Francis Crick and James Watson, work that made Crick and Watson, together with Maurice Wilkins (Ms. Franklin's boss) to win the 1962's Nobel Prize of Medicine.
Crucial in the sense that they used her data - including the now famous "photograph 51", shown by Wilkins to Watson - without Rosalind Franklin's knowledge at the time!
Actuallly, she did came on her own with the double helix structure for the DNA molecule, based on experimental data, rather than Crick and Watson's theorical model, but her article on it was the third published on the subject on Nature, with her contribuitions diminished and forgotten until much later.
She died in 1958, 37-years-old, due ovarian cancer.
But what if she lived longer? What if her article was published at the same time than Watson and Crick?
Could be her the one to win the 1962's Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Can we make her win the Nobel Prize?
Crucial in the sense that they used her data - including the now famous "photograph 51", shown by Wilkins to Watson - without Rosalind Franklin's knowledge at the time!
Actuallly, she did came on her own with the double helix structure for the DNA molecule, based on experimental data, rather than Crick and Watson's theorical model, but her article on it was the third published on the subject on Nature, with her contribuitions diminished and forgotten until much later.
She died in 1958, 37-years-old, due ovarian cancer.
But what if she lived longer? What if her article was published at the same time than Watson and Crick?
Could be her the one to win the 1962's Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Can we make her win the Nobel Prize?
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