Rosalind Franklin was a key contributor to the discovery of the
structure of DNA. Franklin performed research in an X-ray
crystallography laboratory, and was the first to obtain an image of
the “double helix”. She died of cancer in 1958. In 1962, the Nobel
Prize was awarded to three of her male colleagues for the discovery
of DNA, with no mention of Rosalind Franklin. Would she have been
recognized with Watson, Crick, and Wilkins, for the Nobel Prize if
she...