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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (Mark R. Leeper)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,sci.bio,sci.med,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 12:05:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 12:05:54 1987
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In article <431@agrigene.UUCP>, johansen@agrigene.UUCP (Eric Johansen) writes:
> 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.

I was just talking about how small her reward was.  Being a woman
restricted her from the lounge, not the Prize.  Certainly women have
won Nobel Prizes.  Not getting it may have been just bad luck on her
part.  (Or her cancer might actually have been related to her work, as
it was with Mdm.  Curie.  That is just a speculation.)  But to have
been treated as a second class person because she was a woman, to not
have been allowed in the same lounge as the men, was inexcusable.  The second
best scene in the film, and one of the few places where Watson is shown
sympathetically is when he comes looking for Franklin in the lounge, is told
that it is men only and asks "What have you got, toilets here or something?"
The best scene, incidentally, was "Little Boys" and "Where's the water?" is
right up there.  But other people will have to see the film to know what those
are all about.  PBS should pick up RACE.  Really a good film.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper