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From: werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Nobel Prizes
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Date: 3 Nov 88 06:58:14 GMT
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In article <22172@beta.lanl.gov>, cgl@beta.lanl.gov (C G Langton) writes:
> 
> 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. 

	The reason Franklin didn't share the prize is that she died
before it was awarded and the Nobel Prize can't be awarded posthumously.

	If she had lived, then it would have been interesting to see
whether her or Wilkins would have been the third person on the citation.
The prize can be awarded to only three people, and there were two Nature
papers: Watson and Crick, and Wilkins and Franklin:  that's four. Maybe
it would have gone only to Watson and Crick, who knows?  But due to her
untimely death, no conspiracy theories are necessary to explain why she
wasn't cited.
	

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