1962 Nobel Prize

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1:16:04>> obviously you can't give the Nobel Prize for >> postumously, right? And um, Rosalyn Franklin was already four years passed away. The problem is there is not a single mention of her in their Nobel lectures. That's crazy. >> That's crazy. >> That's crazy. >> Given given photograph 51, like that is just insane. >> Yeah. You guys wouldn't have been You would have been in in the dark. >> But for Maurice Leaky Leaky ass. >> Yeah. >> Leaky Wilkins. >> Leaky Wilkins uh giving you for his own beef that he his personal attention is probably a nonzero driver opening the
1:16:46books up >> 100% >> to a local competitor. >> Yeah. >> Right. And so you can't not >> Yeah, you cannot say anything. >> Nothing. >> That's insane. >> Nothing is crazy. >> Rosen Franklin would have would have sort of gone under the radar. But nowadays, whenever we think about DNA, I'll be honest, whenever people who know the story of DNA, if they know James Watson, they know Rosen Franklin. >> I mean, right? Because because of the resurgence of her persona. And all of that happened because she was so wronged. One, she was not given due credit in the Nobel lecture. >> Yeah. >> And then second, in 1968, James Watson
1:17:27publishes the double helix, >> which is this book. My dad bought this book. Um, it's in terrible condition because he bought this in uh the late '9s when he first came to America. This is one of the first books that he bought and he brought it all the way back to India and we've brought it back when we moved back. Um, the double helix was published in 1968. It's a firsthand
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