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Description: Background information on program on Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the double helix. Article by Brenda Maddox, video clip, interview of biology professor. [NOVA]
(April 22, 2003)
NOVA | Secret of Photo 51 | PBS Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, describes the discoveries that lead scientists to focus on DNA as the secret behind life. Hear one biologist's perspective on why Rosalind Franklin should have shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA's structure.
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| Page title: | NOVA | Secret of Photo 51 | PBS |
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| Description: | Visit the companion Web site to the NOVA program Secret of Photo 51, about how Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction photography was instrumental in determining the structure of DNA. Take a closer look at this photograph and others, learn about the discoveries that brought DNA to center stage, and find out how DNA fits inside the cell. |
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