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From: cgl@beta.lanl.gov (C G Langton)
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Subject: Re: Nobel Prizes
Summary: Rosalind Franklin
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Date: 28 Oct 88 08:07:59 GMT
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Although not within the last 10 years, I know that a great many 
people feel that Rosalind Franklin should have shared the Nobel
Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Watson's book
on the discovery - "The Double Helix" - is a very candid, inside
look at how the existence of such a prize can affect the nature
of scientific research - not to mention the careers of scientists
themselves - in both positive and negative ways.

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Chris Langton
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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