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NOVA: DNA - Secret of Photo 51

starring: Nova
directed by: Nova

: NOVA: DNA - Secret of Photo 51
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
EAN: 0783421368194
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: WGBH Boston
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH Boston
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Running Time: 56 minutes
Sales Rank: 19525
Studio: WGBH Boston
Theatrical Release Date: 2003



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Product Description:
On April 25 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA the molecule essential for passing on our genes and the ''secret of life.'' But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another biologist Rosalind Franklin. She would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a crucial piece of her data without her permission. This was an X-ray image ''Photo 51'' that proved to be a vital clue in their decoding of the double helix.50 years later NOVA investigates the shocking truth behind one of the greatest scientific discoveries and presents a moving portrait of a brilliant woman in an era of male-dominated science. Sadly Franklin never lived to see her vital role in the discovery vindicated. While Watson and Crick went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1962 Franklin died in 1958 at 37 from ovarian cancer; and the Nobel is not awarded posthumously.Hear the inside story from Maurice Wilkins the colleague who showed her crucial x-ray to Watson; Raymond Gosling Franklin s Ph.D. student with whom she made Photo 51; and Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug Franklin s last collaborator who shows new evidence of just how close Franklin came to making the vital double helix discovery herself.System Requirements:Running Time: 56 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Age: 7+ UPC: 783421368194 Manufacturer No: WG36819



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Making It Up to Rosalind
This video is very informative, and I would recommend it to those who are interested in the history ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sexism Detailed But Not Named
Male scientists steal a female scientist's DNA work. They call her diminutives behind her back. They ... Read More


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