Four years later, Watson, Crick and Wilkins received a Nobel prize for their work on DNA’s structure. Franklin wasn’t included in that honor. Posthumous Nobel prizes have always been extremely rare, ...

Watson and Crick could not have succeeded without British chemist Rosalind Franklin’s data, writes Dan Levitt. It’s clear that her data was passed on without her knowledge, and Franklin was ...

However, it was belated and overlooked, as she was not awarded the Nobel Prize alongside Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins. Rosalind’s life was cut short in 1958 due to ovarian cancer.

In the 1953 publication, Crick and Watson acknowledged being "stimulated by a knowledge of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E ...

Crick and Wilkins both died in 2004. Watson, 95, could not be reached and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as director, declined to comment on the paper.

Rosalind Franklin’s role in DNA discovery gets a new twist By: Maddie Burakoff, The Associated Press Posted: 1:20 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr. 25, 2023 Advertisement Advertise with us Tweet Share ...