Thank you for writing this important story Becky.

Reminds me of the pioneering breakthroughs forged by Dr. Rosalind Franklin towards the discovery of DNA/RNA molecular structure, mostly unrecognized and ignored during her lifetime--and for which the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1962, just four years after her passing. (She passed just one day before her planned unveiling of the tobacco mosaic virus structure.)

Regrettably, though the Nobel Foundation Statutes were not amended to disallow posthumous awards [with the exception of the occurrence of death after the announcement and before the presentation/investitute of the Prize itself] until 1974, a whole dozen years passed without the scientific community acknowledging the rightful deserving of Dr. Franklin for her work, without which Watson and Crick, along with Maurice Wilkinson, would definitively not have attained theirs in 1962.

It is little surprise, then, that amongst 989 Nobel Laureates, only 61 times were prizes awarded to women. Little consolation though it may be, two of those Prizes belong to the great Marie Curie, one of only 5 individuals to win twice, and the only scientist to win two non-Peace Prizes in different sciences, Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911, and the youngest Laureate ever is Malala Yousafzai, who won the Peace Prize at 17 in 2014.