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Comment Rosalind Franklin was her name (Score 1) 139

I wrote a paper on her in college. She was the first to take clear X-ray crystallography pictures of DNA, from which the double-helical structure could be deduced. Although she died 4 years before Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize, there is doubt as to whether she would have been included as the tension between Wilkins and Franklin was reknowned.

Supposedly (I have not verified this myself), Watson refers to Rosalind Franklin as "Rosie" in his famed book "The Double Helix". It was a nickname she hated.

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