In 1962, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was a awarded jointly to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins for their discovery of the structure of DNA. Physicist Maurice Wilkins was one of several scientists working on DNA at Kings College in London. And so was Rosalind Franklin, but her pivotal work on DNA was not mentioned by any of the Nobel laureates. Read how that happened in
an article I wrote for mental_floss.
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