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| Photo 51: X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin |
On April 25th, 1953,
Nature published three seminal (ha!) essays on the structure of
deoxyribonucleic acid. The now familiar
double helix of DNA was introduced to the world by
James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. Few discoveries have had bigger practical implications. Of course,
the woman has never gotten the same credit as the boys. Amazingly, just 50 years later (to the day), the
Human Genome Project was
declared effectively completed.
So celebrate and swap some DNA with a biochemist
today!
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