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From: johansen@agrigene.UUCP (Eric Johansen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,sci.bio,sci.med,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX
Message-ID: <431@agrigene.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 09:35:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 09:35:23 1987
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Summary: Franklin died so could not get Nobel prize
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In article <3072@mtgzz.UUCP>, leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (Mark R. Leeper) writes:
> 
> 			THE RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX
> 
>                                                                  It is the
> story of how three men won a Nobel Prize based greatly on the work of one
> woman who neither got a piece of the prize nor, because she was a woman, was
> she even allowed to join the men in the lounge of the building where they
> worked.

My impression from the comments written at the end of the movie was that
the sole reason Rosalind Franklin did not receive the Nobel prize along
with the 3 men was that she died of cancer before the prizes were
awarded. Apparently the Nobel prize rule specifically exclude posthumous
awards.

> 
>      THE RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX is a powerful, excellent film.  If this
> sort of thing gets shown often on the BBC, I may pack my bag.  Rate it a +3
> on the -4 to +4 scale.
> 

I agree, this was an excellent movie.