Rosalind Franklin did not share in the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA because _____.
A) she was a woman
B) her contributions were minimal
C) she was not liked by James Watson
D) her ideas were stolen by Maurice Wilkins
E) she died of cancer before the award was given

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The Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously, and Rosalind Franklin had died of ovarian cancer in 1958, four years before the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for their work on the structure of DNA.

Rosalind Franklin Did Not Share in the Nobel Prize for the Discovery