I'm exploring the story of the discovery of DNA. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel prize for it, though Rosalind Franklin (a bio) was also responsible for its discovery. She had died of ovarian cancer a few years before the prize was awarded and the prize is not awarded post-humously.

Apparently there is some controversy about the terms in which the story of DNA's discovery has been told. One account is "The Double Helix," responded to by Anne Sayre (Rosalind Franklin and DNA -- admittedly an unoriginal title) that describes the sex discrimination Franklin faced in her lifetime.

Interesting story. I want to learn more about it. I first started exploring it because I was interested in the role of experimentalists as agents of scientific change in the history and philosophy of science.