Wirt Atmar writes:

>And it was only 50 years ago that James Watson, a biology graduate student,
>and Francis Crick, a physics professor who specialized in crystallography,
>together first decoded the nature of the DNA molecule...

Together with Rosalind Franklin, who worked with Watson and Crick to
provide the chemistry expertise and develop the techniques for the
devilishly-difficult task of crystallizing huge DNA molecules with the
degree of perfection required for X-ray diffraction studies. Today, she
would have shared credit for the work, but like many women working in the
sciences prior to the 1970s, her work was ignored or downplayed when
scientific discoveries were publicized.

-- Bruce


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