The villain also has spring

It was different from Su Zi who was concentrating on listening to the female doctor's conversation.Wu Chen was quite curious about the exhibits in the doctor's private laboratory.Every time Su Zi subconsciously glanced at the walls on both sides with the corner of his eyes, Wu Chen would gather his energy, look for the right moment, and search for these very personal exhibits as much as possible.

The reason for this is also very simple, that is to find clues that can determine her true identity from these items most directly related to the female doctor.

Through Wu Chen's unremitting efforts, there are still gains.

First of all, it can be confirmed that the female doctor is indeed proficient in...human genetics (=.=).

Most of the private exhibits hanging on both sides of the wall are fragments of human gene chains.These genomes marked with different colors obviously play a very important role in our genetics of life.Wu Chen also discovered that the genomes on the two walls are significantly different.

How should I put it, the genome on the left is relatively simple, full of a natural beauty.On the other hand, the genome on the right is full of complexity and change, as well as a touch of sinister beauty.Moreover, the opposite set of genes should be the same human genome and the mutated genome after the X mutation.One is the original appearance, and the other is the mutated appearance.

Wu Chen's attention even affected Su Zi.

The female doctor, who was talking to Su Zi, noticed the low-level researcher's distraction almost instantly.

So the female doctor calmly interrupted the narration, and before Su Zi suddenly reacted and was at a loss, she smiled just right: "Isn't it beautiful?"

"Yes." Su Zi told the truth.

"This is the charm of life." The female doctor seemed to recall something, but it was fleeting and regained her clarity: "I once imagined three models of DNA, and I called them: A, B, and C."

Wu Chen, who was preparing to endure a wave of spiritual shock, couldn't help but subconsciously smiled bitterly: "AB...C?" Come on, I thought it was some kind of code name that shook the world and made ghosts and gods cry...

"Yes. It's ABC." The female doctor smiled and shrugged: "What else can it be? It's so simple and clear."

"It's very good." Su Zi, who felt the host's resentment and was in a spiritual connection with Wu Chen, couldn't help but smile knowingly.

"I thought I would arrive at a classical chemical model. Molecules, molecular bonds, atoms, atomic bonds, ions, ionic bonds...then composition and a clear geometry. However, it turned out that I was wrong. As people It is said that straight lines belong to human beings, while arcs belong to the Creator." As she spoke, the female doctor took away the calculation manuscripts piled up on the corner of the table, revealing a double helix model full of infinite beauty.

Those two beautiful spiral lines that seem to be parted and yet combined, and which are entwined with each other, are the arcs that belong to the Creator in the mouth of the female doctor.

"So doctor, when you were studying the structure of NDA, you designed three models?" Su Zi caught his interest.

"That's right." The female doctor's fingertips seemed to be stroking her own child, stroking this double helix model: "The phosphate radicals form the skeleton of two polynucleotide chains on the outside of the helix, and the directions are opposite; the bases are on the inside of the helix. , they correspond in pairs, adenine (A) is always paired with thymine (T), guanine (G) is always paired with cytosine (C)... the base sequences of the two chains are complementary to each other, as long as Once the base sequence of one chain is determined, the base sequence of the other chain is also determined. Therefore, only one of the chains is used as a template to synthesize and copy the other chain..."

Following the female doctor's narration, a dusty memory before Wu Chen became a player of the shelter was suddenly activated.Then, through Su Zi's mouth, he blurted out: "DNA double helix!"

"Yes, double helix." The female doctor smiled and raised her head.

Lightly touching her eyes full of supreme wisdom, Wu Chen's whole body ignited: "Rosalind Elsie Franklin (Rosalind Elsie Franklin)!"

"You know me?" The female doctor's expression showed a little surprise.

Just kidding, how could Wu Chen not know her!

Rosalyn Elsie Franklin - the true discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA!

The Forgotten Goddess of Darkness!

Rosalyn Elsie Franklin was a distinguished physical chemist, crystallographer, X-ray diffraction technologist, and geneticist.

On July 1920, 7, he was born in a wealthy Jewish family in London.Her uncle was the first Jew to enter the British cabinet, her aunt was involved in women's suffrage and trade union activities, and her father was a professor at the London Workers' College and later became the principal of the school.

It's a Jewish elite, as the Jewish tycoons preach!

Franklin, who grew up in such an elite family, lacks the arrogance of a rich girl, but has more independence and desire for dreams of women in the new era. At the age of 15, she secretly decided to become a scientist, although her father did not want her to embark on the path of scientific research.Because, in that era, there was more or less discrimination against women in the scientific community.But the stubborn Franklin insisted on going on.

Let us take a look at her life from now on.

At the age of 18, he was admitted to Cambridge University from St. Paul's Girls' School in London. Three years later, although she successfully completed her studies, she failed to obtain a formal degree when she walked out of Cambridge University, and only had a "nominal degree" (decreetitular).This happened only because, at that time, Cambridge University did not award women a "Bachelor of Arts" degree (BACantab.).

However, gender injustice did not dampen Franklin's enthusiasm for scientific research.After graduating from Cambridge, she came to work in the laboratory of Ronald Norrish (1967 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). In 1942, due to World War II, she entered the British Coal Utilization Association.It took another three years. At the age of 3, she passed the defense of her doctoral thesis and received a doctorate in physical chemistry.After the war, Franklin went to work in Paris, France.And at the National Central Chemical Laboratory in Paris, I worked for 25 years (3 years again!), learning X-ray crystal diffraction technology.It was there that Franklin's papers on coal research brought her international fame.For example: the application of X-ray crystal diffraction technology in the detection of crystal structure (Diffraction diagram of powder crystal of Luobu placer).

In 1950, Franklin was hired to work at King's College, University of London.Her original research topic should be X-ray crystal diffraction of proteins, but her boss, physicist John Randall, assigned her a new task.At that time, the study of the chemical structure of DNA was a hot field.Whether it is chemistry, physics or biologists, they all hope to decipher the secret of DNA structure as soon as possible.Under Randall's arrangement, Franklin began research on the structure of DNA.

On the basis of a large number of studies, three chemical structures of DNA were listed and named as A, B and C types.

In May 1952, after a long period of research, Franklin and Greens obtained an X-ray crystal diffraction photo of B-type DNA, and used the Patterson function (Patterson function) specially used to solve the X-ray crystal diffraction problem. ) applied in image analysis.

This diffraction photo called "No. 51" was described by John Desmond Bernal, one of the pioneers of X-ray crystal diffraction, as "almost the most beautiful X-ray photo ever made."

And it is photo No. 51 that clearly shows the correct structure of DNA and cracks the secret of DNA structure!

However, the breakthrough discovery that should have made her was stolen by several other male researchers (I will not mention their names), and using this as an important reference, they developed a chemical model of DNA, the magical double spiral!

The discovery of the DNA double helix structure is undoubtedly a milestone achievement in modern biology.So various honors and applause brought the two embezzlers to the whole world, but Franklin, the real discoverer, turned to the research of TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus) wholeheartedly.She led her team to complete the TMV model, studied the infection of TMV to plants, and the RNA wrapped in the TMV protein shell. She also studied the poliovirus that can cause polio, and was awarded by the National Institutes of Health of the United States. funding.

In 1956, Franklin felt unwell, and her abdomen swelled up like a bag full of water.After examination, the doctor found that she was suffering from ovarian cancer. That year, she was only 36 years old.Two years later, in April 1958, Franklin ended her short but brilliant life.

As a woman, she has always had a fighting and independent heart like a man.She is extremely talented and has made achievements in coal, DNA structure, X-ray diffraction, and virus research, but she missed opportunities one after another because of the prejudice against women in the era.

She was in a "hostile environment, and if she felt confident and supported, she might have an amazing imagination." The discoverers of DNA's double helix didn't give her applause. The Nobel Prize in 1962 was only given to XX, XXX and XXXX.

What's more, in a certain thief's book "Double Helix", he spared no effort to slander Franklin's image and achievements.And scornfully called her: "Dark Lady".

More books and articles introducing the DNA double helix structure did not even mention her name.In that era of heyday of patriarchy, Franklin was more like the "Goddess of Darkness" behind the DNA, almost no one knew of her existence!

Of course, her untimely death was an important reason why she did not win the Nobel Prize.But if she is still alive, can she really get the Nobel Prize that should belong to her?

The answer is, no.

Because she is indeed still alive.

Standing in front of Wu Chen alive.

The reason why Wu Chen remembered her greatness was that apart from her great discovery—the most beautiful X-ray photo in history, what was even greater was her brilliance of personality.

When she left the DNA research post, she was so outcast that she didn't even take a copy of her research with her (note!).Leave them, including the "Photo No. 51", to the male researchers who slandered, slandered, envied, and cursed her.Even when they gained international fame, she just smiled and felt happy for those thieves from the bottom of her heart!

God, she doesn't even care!