Correction -- Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin


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Posted by Alexander on 18:09:20 2004/08/01

In Reply to: Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin posted by Alexander

Of course -- deserved credit for discovering the structure and significance of DNA must also be extended to Rosalind Franklin -- who sadly died of ovarian cancer at age 37 -- four years before the Nobel Prize could be awarded. She is quite regrettably rarely mentioned in association with Watson and Crick for her key role in their "discovery" of DNA:

http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/chemach/ppb/cwwf.html

http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/March2004/pdf/March2004ArticleInABox.pdf


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/franklin_rosalind_elsie.shtml



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