Franklin, Rosalind Elsie and Gosling, Raymond George. Photo 51. 1952, King´s College London in London, England
The genetic material glimpsed in Photo 51 connects all living things and the image thus metaphorically captures human past, present, and future. It also marks an important milestone in science. In the last half-century, research that drew from Franklin’s photograph has brought advances in biology, medicine, paleontology, and many other parts of life.
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If you could meet someone you've always wanted to meet right now, who would you want to meet and what would you say/do?
I think I probably want to meet with Sergi Llull a Real Madrid Basketball player. And the first thing would be ask: why the hell did you say 'No' to the Houston Rockets? And the next question would be 'why did you thought it was a good idea to not comment/let Real Madrid choose the NBA clause at 60 millions euros?
The other person I'd like to meet might be Rosalind Franklin just to warn her about the supervisor going behind her back and showing the infamous photo 51 to Crick and Watson. That "photo" (was an X-ray of the DNA) was the key evidence to postulate and later on confirm the DNA structure.
Franklin was not aware of that, and never credited. In fact, the credit of her work when to the her boss.
I'd like to see what might happen if she hadn't got the photo.
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Aviation Nation 2007 Heritage Flight
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D-Day 80th Anniversary
North American P-51B-10, 42-106472/PZ-D, "The Flying Scot/Vicious Virgie", flown by Lt. Carlton L. Fuhrman, 468th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, Bodney, June 1944.
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