More precisely: "While she would not have been eligible to win a Nobel prize, because the award is not given posthumously, she likely would have been omitted in

More precisely: "While she would not have been eligible to win a Nobel prize, because the award is not given posthumously, she likely would have been omitted in any case, as her and Gosling's data was not even cited/mentioned in Watson and Crick's Nature paper, which suggests they did not intend to share credit." Check out the last paragraph of page 737 and the first on page 738: https://www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-nature-papers-watson-crick-wilkins-franklin.pdf https://www.mskcc.org/teaser/1953-nature-papers-watson-crick... That gives you an idea about the generic acknowledgement to Franklin (not even in first position).