I happened to turn on public TV last night. The Nova show was on Rosalind Franklin and her role in the discovery of DNA. I had never heard of her. Little A. knew about her and photo 51. Maybe Little A. is correct - I don't know anything. I am humbled.
For those old enough to remember life before computers and calculators - note that Rosalind Franklin did all her calculations by hand.
This is the link for the Nova program that aired August 9, 2005 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/
Further Readings:
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (HarperCollins, 2002) Brenda Maddox
"Rosalind Franklin and the Double Helix," by Lynne Osman Elkin, Physics Today, March 2003 (available at www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-3/p42.html)
Sodium deoxyribose nucleate from calf thymus, Structure B, Photo 51, taken by Rosalind E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling. - May 2,1952
Photo from http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/narrative/page13.html
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