DNA Pioneer Provokes Outrage

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From 1947 to 1950, Rosalind worked at the Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de L'Etat in Paris, where she learned techniques in X-ray diffraction. Then, in 1951, she returned to England and worked in the lab at King's College in Cambridge. It was there that she was given the responsibility for the DNA project, and she worked somewhat awkwardly with Maurice Wilkins.

Rosalind almost cracked the DNA code, but Wilkins gave some of her DNA pictures to James Watson and Francis Crick, and they solved it.
Four years after her death, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received a Nobel Prize for the discovery of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA). There is a lot of controversy over how much Rosalind contributed.

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Dr Watson is no stranger to controversy. He has been reported in the past saying that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual.

Somewhere Pat Robertson's head just exploded.

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.http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/19/uk.race/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Watson, 79, an American who won the 1962 Nobel prize for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, apologized Thursday for his remarks -- but not before London's Science Museum canceled his talk there, planned for Friday evening.

The museum said Watson's words had "gone beyond the point of acceptable debate."