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Only sport I ever watch is Sumo and that hasn't been on our screens for ages.
I've read at least one book about Henrietta Lack- poor woman. Rusty, you might enjoy Brenda Maddox's book on Rosalind Franklin. Similar in many ways, most strikingly because attitudes have changed so much since their day, only about 60 years ago. She so nearly made it up there with Crick and Watson

Re the panto, Pigale.... I haven't been for years, not since our children were small - and I well remember being taken myself when young!
From what I hear though, it isn't as it used to be? but then that's true of so many things.....
I used to enjoy the communal spirit of the audience all shouting out as one....."Behind you....!"

There has been quite a lot of mistaken comment on Franklin's contribution being ignored by the Nobel Prize committee. The sad fact is that she had died well before the Prizes were awarded, and the rules don't permit posthumous awards.

Hi Chrise,
It might well do but I am not sure.
One thing though, when I taught French on a private basis in Guernsey, I made a point of advertising 'French Tuition ...etc'
and not 'French Lessons'!
on my husband's recommendations!

Chris, so it wasn't a scientific slant, more about Henrietta herself as a person and what happened to her?

Pigale
Good decision!
Elle
As far as I got, it was about her.

Yes, chris, I know and she was also a very difficult woman. But my goodness she had a lot to put up with- at a fairly trivial level "Women were not allowed in King's senior common room" for example.
Do you think, had she lived, she would have shared in the prize?

Yes, there was (still is?) considerable prejudice against women scientists, regrettably.

However I don't think the Nobel Committee could possibly have overlooked her contribution - after all, what did Wilkins do?

I have just ordered The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by the wonderfully named Rebecca Skloot.
And, Rosalind, I will investigate Rosalind Franklin tomorrow.
Elle, why should not I be interested in Flamenco?
I like different cultures etc
There is more to life than BGT...so there is.
Is your new car going well?.

Wilkins showed Watson Rosalind's photograph 51, and Perutz showed him and Crick his MRC report which told them all they wanted to know about Rosalind's work.

A long time ago I was drinking sherry (!!! really. Does anyone do that now?) at a Congress in a group next to Crick's coterie. Someone near me whispered "Best not to discuss any ideas just now, you don't want them overheard". (I did have one but I never followed it up. Years later it turned out to be about right).