Photograph 51, originally a NOVA episode, is available as a DVD for classroom viewing. I highly recommend it to high school and college biology, women’s studies, and science history students, as a testament to the sexual discrimination once pervasive in science and still evident in some male-dominated professions. A lesson on DNA would benefit from a showing of this compelling DVD. Students already familiar with the names Franklin, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins who have read Watson’s bestseller The Double Helix may know that Rosalind Franklin, the noir heroine of DNA structure, died at 37. Our textbooks tell us how her discoveries inspired the Watson-Crick model of the structure of DNA, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. The fact that Franklin’s sine qua non research was not mentioned in Stockholm was not surprising, considering the time in which she lived. The scientists and friends interviewed on the DVD...

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