Rosalind Franklin: Was she Robbed of a Nobel Prize?
5 min readOct 31, 2023
We all know that Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. Right? We are taught so in our science classes. So it must be true.
In 1962 James Watson and Francis Crick who were working at Cavendish Laboratory in London were racing to crack the DNA code, as were many other scientists. In 1951 a scientist named Maurice Wilkins was at Kings College…