 |
 |
Man who helped unlock DNA dies
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: The Tollbooth Capital of the US
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
"Evil is Powerless If the Good are Unafraid." -Ronald Reagan
Apple and Intel, the dawning of a NEW era.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
You may not know that, although they were on the right track, Watson and Crick stole the double helix shape discovery from a fellow female scientist.
At this time female scientists were largely ignored, and she was never credited with having helped them unravel DNA so to speak. If I'm not lazy I might try and find her name 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Off the Tobakoff
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Krypton:
...she was never credited...
I think she's credited with helping Watson and Crick in most modern texts on the matter.
|
"You rise," he said, "like Aurora." 
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Status:
Offline
|
|
The sad thing seems to be that she didn't help them as much as had her work half stolen. It be like you were doing research on a cure for AIDS and you're about to put together the missing pieces (that you collected) and you have to go to the bathroom... but when you get back, someone has shown another scientists your pieces and they put it together themselves and get credit for the cure for AIDS.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Stradlater:
I think she's credited with helping Watson and Crick in most modern texts on the matter.
Yes I'll give you that, but she missed out on the Nobel Prize and the opportunity to have her name immortalised.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Off the Tobakoff
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Krypton:
Yes I'll give you that, but she missed out on the Nobel Prize and the opportunity to have her name immortalised.
True 
I haven't really heard her mentioned in any of the Crick news articles I've heard/read so far.
|
"You rise," he said, "like Aurora."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: With my kitties!
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Krypton:
Yes I'll give you that, but she missed out on the Nobel Prize and the opportunity to have her name immortalised.
As I remember, Ms Franklin died of cancer in her late 30s.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Syracuse
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Dale Sorel:
As I remember, Ms Franklin died of cancer in her late 30s.
Most likely due to all the radiation she was exposed to as a result of figuring out the DNA structure. She got the shaft.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
Status:
Offline
|
|
My prayers go out to his family and friends. May he rest in peace.
|
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In your backyard!!!
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by wdlove:
My prayers go out to his family and friends. May he rest in peace.
Dude, why the hell are you so nice to everyone. People like you make me sick, being nice is one thing, but too nice is another. When's the last time you did something evil, just for the sake of it.
Like putting chewing gum on a seat knowing something else would sit in it, or puncturing a tyre because someone parked badly next to you or even pooing in a public toilet and just not flushing it so it could stink the place out? Who do you think you are, the second coming of Jesus, stop it already.
You make me sick.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: With my kitties!
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Weezer:
Most likely due to all the radiation she was exposed to as a result of figuring out the DNA structure. She got the shaft.
Yep 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: In bits and pieces on Cloud City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Guess he didn't crack the secret to long life eh.
|
|
"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Off the Tobakoff
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Guess he didn't crack the secret to long life eh.
88 years isn't bad...much better than Franklin's 37 years, at any rate.
|
"You rise," he said, "like Aurora."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Off the Tobakoff
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Krypton:
Yes I'll give you that, but she missed out on the Nobel Prize and the opportunity to have her name immortalised.
Anyways, she "missed out" on the Nobel Prize because the Nobel Assembly doesn't award scientists posthumously...she deserves more acknowledgment, though.
|
"You rise," he said, "like Aurora."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Ken Masters:
Dude, why the hell are you so nice to everyone. People like you make me sick, being nice is one thing, but too nice is another. When's the last time you did something evil, just for the sake of it.
Like putting chewing gum on a seat knowing something else would sit in it, or puncturing a tyre because someone parked badly next to you or even pooing in a public toilet and just not flushing it so it could stink the place out? Who do you think you are, the second coming of Jesus, stop it already.
You make me sick.
And you, my friend, are a poopy ahead. Shoo.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top