Thursday, April 2, 2009

Our deepest apologies








Yaqi and I are sorry for drawing on Rosalind Elsie Franklin's face.


This is her real photo.


"The now familiar double helical structure of DNA, a twisted ladder with base-pairs rungs essential to its hereditary function, was deciphered in 1953. The individuals most commonly associated with this remarkable accomplishment are James Watson and Francis Crick. Maurice Wilkins played a role as well, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Watson and Crick. Yet there was one other person whose truly essential contribution to this discovery could not be recognized by the Nobel Committee in 1962. That person was Rosalind Franklin."


It is all our lecturer's fault for saying "he" instead of "she"
may everybody please forgive us.
We will never forget her contributions ever.
SORRY !!



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