Who receives the credit?
A missed prize, an uncredited contribution and delayed recognition are different histories. Follow what each record establishes rather than assuming one explanation for all of them.
An editorial comparison of works, not a documented lineage. Specialist passage review pending.
Begin with crystallographic work and the evidence used in establishing DNA’s structure. Separate contribution from the later account of recognition.
Which work is visible in the record of a discovery?
- The story behind Photograph 51, King’s College London
- Maddox, Brenda. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA. HarperCollins, 2002.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Letter to her father (c. 1940); cited in Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin (2002)Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
Follow the distinction between experimental findings, theoretical explanation and the Nobel award.
What exactly did each contributor do?
- Meitner and Frisch on nuclear fission, Atomic Heritage Foundation document
- Meitner, Lise, and Otto Frisch. "Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons." Nature, 1939.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Sime, Ruth Lewin. Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. University of California Press, 1996.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
3. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Read the discovery of pulsars and the later allocation of recognition as related but distinct events.
Who is named at each stage of the story?
- Bell Burnell, S. Jocelyn. Petit Four, after-dinner address, 1977.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Interviews, Institute of Physics.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
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