In his memoir of their discovery, The Double Helix, James Watson suggests that, had Franklin not died due to cancer a few years after their ground-breaking rese

In his memoir of their discovery, The Double Helix, James Watson suggests that, had Franklin not died due to cancer a few years after their ground-breaking research, she might have shared their Nobel. He further speculates that since her protege Aaron Klug later won the Nobel in chemistry for his X-ray crystallography work (techniques she introduced him to), it wouldn't be far-fetched to imagine her having been a double laureate.