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Season
- NOVA Season 0 1999-07-13
- NOVA Season 1 1974-03-03
- NOVA Season 2 1974-11-03
- NOVA Season 3 1976-01-04
- NOVA Season 4 1977-01-05
- NOVA Season 5 1978-01-04
- NOVA Season 6 1979-01-04
- NOVA Season 7 1980-01-15
- NOVA Season 8 1981-01-06
- NOVA Season 9 1982-01-10
- NOVA Season 10 1983-01-18
- NOVA Season 11 1984-01-17
- NOVA Season 12 1985-01-15
- NOVA Season 13 1986-01-21
- NOVA Season 14 1987-01-20
- NOVA Season 15 1988-01-19
- NOVA Season 16 1989-01-17
- NOVA Season 17 1990-01-09
- NOVA Season 18 1991-01-08
- NOVA Season 19 1992-01-14
- NOVA Season 20 1993-01-05
- NOVA Season 21 1994-01-18
- NOVA Season 22 1995-01-08
- NOVA Season 23 1995-10-10
- NOVA Season 24 1996-10-01
- NOVA Season 25 1997-10-07
- NOVA Season 26 1998-10-06
- NOVA Season 27 1999-10-05
- NOVA Season 28 2000-10-24
- NOVA Season 29 2001-10-02
- NOVA Season 30 2002-09-03
- NOVA Season 31 2003-09-30
- NOVA Season 32 2004-09-28
- NOVA Season 33 2005-09-20
- NOVA Season 34 2006-09-05
- NOVA Season 35 2007-10-09
- NOVA Season 36 2008-10-07
- NOVA Season 37 2009-10-06
- NOVA Season 38 2010-10-19
- NOVA Season 39 2011-09-07
- NOVA Season 40 2012-10-10
- NOVA Season 41 2013-09-11
- NOVA Season 42 2014-09-10
- NOVA Season 43 2015-09-16
- NOVA Season 44 2016-09-07
- NOVA Season 45 2018-01-10
- NOVA Season 46 2019-01-02
- NOVA Season 47 2020-02-05
- NOVA Season 48 2021-01-13
- NOVA Season 49 2022-02-01
- NOVA Season 50 2023-02-01
- NOVA Season 51 2024-01-31
Episode
- Episode 1 : Killer Disease on Campus
- Episode 2 : Mysterious Life of Caves
- Episode 3 : Lost Roman Treasure
- Episode 4 : Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
- Episode 5 : Volcano's Deadly Warning
- Episode 6 : Sinking City of Venice
- Episode 7 : The Orchid Hunter
- Episode 8 : Spies That Fly
- Episode 9 : Last Flight of Bomber 31
- Episode 10 : Ancient Creature of the Deep
- Episode 11 : Battle of the X-Planes
- Episode 12 : Mountain of Ice
- Episode 13 : Lost Treasures of Tibet
- Episode 14 : Dirty Bomb
- Episode 15 : Deep Sea Invasion
- Episode 16 : Secret of Photo 51
NOVA - Season 30 Episode 16
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 biologistÐRosalind 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, FranklinÕs Ph.D. student with whom she made Photo 51; and Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug, FranklinÕs last collaborator, who shows new evidence of just how close Franklin came to making the vital double helix discovery herself.
Genre: Documentary
First Air Date: Mar 03, 1974
Last Air date: Apr 03, 2024
Season: 51 Season
Episode: 980 Episode
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Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Keyword: nature
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