![]() ![]() ![]() Watson attended a departmental colloquium at King’s College given by Franklin, and came into possession of an internal progress report she had written. Rosalind Franklin was deeply involved in the determination of the structure of DNA, and had collected numerous diffraction patterns. The history of Watson and Crick’s proposed DNA model is controversial and a travesty of scientific ethics. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize with Watson and Crick, but Franklin had been dead four years at the time of the award (you cannot be awarded the Nobel Prize posthumously). Their work rested heavily on X‑ray crystallographic work done on RNA and DNA by Franklin and Wilkins. Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for elucidating the structure of DNA and proposing the mechanism for gene reproduction. ![]()
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